The corpus record
Μέλισσα
melissa
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Distribution
- Histories 7 · 0.38/10k
- Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k
Senses
This appears to be a proper name — a person, a place, a river — attested in the corpus but outside the library's subject, the vocabulary of the soul; no lexicon entry is recorded.
Attestations
- Μέλισσαν · Melissan Herodotus, Histories 3.50.1 (DIORISIS sentence 3230)
- Μελίσσης · Melissēs Herodotus, Histories 3.50.1 (DIORISIS sentence 3231)
- Μέλισσαν · Melissan Herodotus, Histories 5.92G.1 (DIORISIS sentence 6006)
- Μέλισσα · Melissa Herodotus, Histories 5.92G.2 (DIORISIS sentence 6007)
- Μελίσσῃ · Melissēi Herodotus, Histories 5.92G.3 (DIORISIS sentence 6011)
- Μελίσσῃ · Melissēi Herodotus, Histories 5.92G.3 (DIORISIS sentence 6012)
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