maliades

The nymphs who were worshiped as the protectors of flocks and of fruit-trees. They are also called meliades (μηλίδες) or epimelides (ἐπιμηλίδες).

The same name is also given to the nymphs of the district of the Malians on the river Spercheius.1

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References

Notes

  1. Sophocles. Philoctetes, 725.

Sources

  • Eustathius on Homer, p. 1963.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.
  • Theocritus, i, 22, with Valck. note; xiii, 45.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.