Melibocus
τὸ Μηλίβοκον ὄρος
Melibocus (τὸ Μηλίβοκον ὄρος), a mountain in the interior of Germany, above the Semanus Silva. (Ptol. 2.11.7.) There can be little doubt that Melibocus is the ancient name for the Harz mountain, or the Thüringer wald, or for both.
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.