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Melite

Μελίτη

(Μελίτη).

1. A nymph, one of the Nereides, a daughter of Nereus and Doris. (Hom. Il. 18.42; Hes. Theog. 246; Apollod. 1.2.7; Virg. Aen. 5.825.)

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.