Polles
Πόλλης
(Πόλλης). Suidas mentions (s. v. Μελάμπους), that Melampus and Polles had acquired such celebrity as diviners, that there was a current proverb, "It eeds a Melampus or a Polles to divine it." He was a native of Aegae in Asia Minor, and wrote copiously on the subject of divination in all its forms; as on the prognostications to be derived from the objects that met a traveller on his way; from what occurred at home; regarding the result of diseases; and similar subjects, for which see Suidas (s. v. Ὀιωνιστικήν, Πόλλης).
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.