Melae
Melae
1.
A town of the Samnites, mentioned only by Livy (24.20), among the towns of the Caudine Samnites which were taken by Fabius in B.C. 214. The same author elsewhere (27.1) mentions a town of the Samnites which he calls MELES, and which was not taken till B.C. 210, by Marcellus. Nevertheless, it is probable that the same place is meant in both cases, but we have no clue to its position.
2.
A town in the neighbourhood of Locri in Bruttium, mentioned by Thucydides (5.5), but otherwise wholly unknown. [LOCRI] [E.H.B]
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. 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.