Melpes
Melpes a small river of Lucania, flowing into the Tyrrhenian sea, near the promontory of Palinurus (Plin. Nat. 3.5. s. 10). It is now called the Molpa.
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.