Melinno
Μελιννώ
(Μελιννώ), a lyric poetess.
Works
Ode to Rome
the author of an ode on Rome in five Sapphic stanzas, which is commonly ascribed to Erinna of Lesbos. Nothing is known of her with certainty, except what the ode itself shows, namely, that she lived in the flourishing period of the Roman empire.
Works
The ode is printed, with an admirable essay upon it, by Welcker, in Creuzer's Melectemata, 1817, p.1, and in Welcker's Kleine Schrifien, vol. ii. p. 160.
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.