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• Fowler 2013, p. 590 (using Grab)

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Apollodorus

2.5.4

So passing through Pholoe he was entertained by the centaur Pholus, a son of Silenus by a Melian nymph.²

² As to these nymphs, see Hesiod, Th. 187. The name perhaps means an ash-tree nymph (from μελία, an ash tree), as Dryad means an oak tree nymph (from δρῦς, an oak tree).

Callimachus

Aetia fr. 75.62 (Trypanis, Gelzer, and Whitman, pp, 60, 61)

and how Ceos, son of Phoebus and Melia,

Pherecydes of Athens

fr. 21 Fowler 2001, p. 289 (= FGrHist 3 F 21 = Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 3.1177-87f)

Fowler 2001, p. 289

Strabo

12.4.8

and when Alexander the Aetolian says,“who have their homes on the Ascanian streams, on the lips of the Ascanian Lake, where dwelt Dolion the son of Silenus and Melia,”

14.5.29

and by Alexander the Aetolian, “who have their homes on the Ascanian streams, on the lips of the Ascanian Lake, where dwelt Dolion, the son of Silenus and Melia." And he says that the country round Cyzicus, as one goes to Miletupolis, is called Dolionis and Mysia.

Modern

Fontenrose

P. 318

And Melia the Oceanid is another link that unites the Oceanid Europa to Agenor's daughter. Not only does she play the same part as the latter, but Agenor had a daughter Melia, who married Danos, whose wife's name is also given as Europa. Notice furthermore that Melia, Ocean's daughter, became Inachos' wife and bore Phroneus, husband of Europa; ... and that a nymph Melia became wife of Silenos and mother of the Centaur Pholos. Finally one should notice the Meliai, the ash-tree nymphs who were born from Uranos' severed members and were the mothers of the Bronze Men. There appear to be one and the same original behind all these nymphs; the chaos demoness who was the first mother of all creatures.

Fowler 2013

p. 219

About [the Doliones], the only other information at our disposal comes from Alexander of Aitolos fr. 6 Powell [= Strabo, 12.4.8] that their eponym Dolion was son of Silenos and a nymph Melie, a Mysian.

p. 367

The names [of the children] were a matter of free invention. ... For the sons Pherekydes [fr. 126 Fowler] gives Alalkomenus, Phereus, Eudoros, Lysippos, Xanthos, Argeios. The first two are eponyms of places in Boiotia, and Argeios may relate to Ampion's remote ancestry; Xanthos recalls the Boiotian king who figures in the aition of the Apatouria (Hellan. fr. 125). Of the girls (Chione, Klytia, Melia, Hore, Damasippe, Pelopia) Melia recalls the Okeanid who bore Iemenos and Teneros to Apollo (e.g. Paus. 9.10.6) and Pelopia recalls her uncle Pelops.

p. 511

XENOM. FR. 1

Kallimachos (frr. 67-75) effectively provides a precis of Xenomedes' local history of Keos. ... the arrival of Kares and Leleges, worshippers of Zeus Alalaxios (Zeus the Warcry), in whose time the island was named after Keos son of Apollo and Melie (60-3);

p. 512

It is not clear in Kallimachos' text whether Keos, son of Apollo and Melie (the nymph's name is fairly generic; she could be autochthonous, or Cretan as in Kallim. Hymn 1.47), is one of the Leleges, but ...

Gantz

p. 308

We also saw before that a second daughter of this same Belos, one Damno, marries in Pherekydes Agenor, son of Poseidon, who is almost certainly her uncle and, like Belos, a son of Poseidon and Libya (3F21). This union of Damno and Agenor produces produces Phoinix, Isaie, and Melia; Pherekydes then marries off the two girls to Aigyptos and Danos, their first cousins (and uncles), and the son Phoinix, to Kassiepeia, daughter of Arabos, by whom he begets Kilix, Phineus, and Doryklos (this in 3F86). ...

Rutherford

p. 341

It is even possible that the reference was to Melia, whose name associates her with mountains.⁷

⁷ As in Sim. PMG 519 fr. 35(b) 7 and (probably) fr. 37; see Rutherford (1990), 186 n. 63 (the papyrus reading ὀρ̣ε̣ιδρόμον is right, as at PMG 519 fr. 37, and ὀρ̣ε̣ιδρομο[ at PMG 519 fr. 35(b) 7 is probably wrong: see Dyck (1989), 3-4; also Fraenkel (1959), 13=(1964), i. 431). Melia (ash-tree) and mountains: see Hom. Il. 13. 178; Ar. Birds, 742.

Smith

s.v. Melia

（*Meli/a), a nymph, a daughter of Oceanus, became by Inachus the mother of Phoroneus and Aegialeus or Pegeus. (Apollod. 2.1.1; Schol. ad Eurip. Orest. 920.) By Seilenus she became the mother of the centaur, Pholus (Apollod. 2.5.4), and by Poseidon of Amycus. (Apollon. 2.4; Serv. ad Aen. 5.373.) She was carried off by Apollo, and became by him the mother of Ismenius (some call her own brother Ismenus, Schol. ad Pind. Pyth. 11.5; Tzetz. ad Lyc. 1211), and of the seer Tenerus. She was worshipped in the Apollinian sanctuary, the Ismenium, near Thebes. (Paus. 9.10.5, 26.1; Strab. p. 413. )

In the plural form Μελιαι or Μειάδες is the name of the nymphs, who, along with the Gigantes and Erinnyes, sprang from the drops of blood that fell from Uranus, and which were received by Gaea. (Hes. Th. 187.) The nymphs that nursed Zeus are likewise called Meliae. (Callim. Hymn. in Joy. 47; Eustath. ad Horn. p. 1963.)