A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

Smith, William

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. William Smith, LLD, ed. 1890

(Πόλλης). Suidas mentions (s. v. Μελάμπους), that Melampus and Polles had acquired such celebrity as diviners, that there was a current proverb, "It eeds a Melampus or a Polles to divine it." He was a native of Aegae in Asia Minor, and wrote copiously on the subject of divination in all its forms; as on the prognostications to be derived from the objects that met a traveller on his way; from what occurred at home; regarding the result of diseases; and similar subjects, for which see Suidas (s. v. Ὀιωνιστικήν, Πόλλης).

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