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Meles2

Meles2 · f

a marten

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Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

1. mēles — Lewis & Short

mēles (maeles) and mēlis (mae-lis), is, f.,

I a marten or badger, Varr. R. R. 3, 12, 3; Plin. 8, 38, 58, § 138; Grat. Cyneg. 340.

2. Mĕles — Lewis & Short

Mĕles, ētis, m., *me/lhs,

I a river in Ionia, near Smyrna, on the banks of which, it is said, Homer was born, Plin. 5, 29, 31, § 118; Stat. S. 2, 7, 33; 3, 3, 60.—Hence,

A Mĕlētēus, a, um, adj., Meletean, poet. for Homeric: chartae, Tib. 4, 1, 200.—

B Mĕ-lētīnus, a, um, adj., Meletine: deae, dwelling at Meles, Ov. F. 4, 236.

3. Mĕles — Lewis & Short

Mĕles, ium, f.

I plur., a village in the Samnite territory, Liv. 27, 1, 1.

Where it came from

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