Melanaegis
Μελαναιγίς
(Μελαναιγίς), i.e. armed or clad with a black aegis, occurred as a surname of Dionysus at Eleutherae (Suid. s. v. Ἐλεύθερος; Paus. 1.38.8), and at Athens (Suid. s. v. Ἀπατούρια; Conon, Narrat. 39; Paus. 2.35.1; comnp. MELANTHUS), and of the Erinnys. (Aeschyl. Sept. 700.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.