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name is mentioned as a second title of the Book of Biblioth. Patrum, Proleg. in Vol. I. c. 24; Routh,
Proverbs. From Melito's use of the term ic' Trs Reliquine Sacrae, 1. c., Annot. in Meliton. Frags
rcrAaasr &laOnK71r B3ALa, "Veteris Testamenti (s. menta.) [J. C. M.]
Foederis) Libri," Lardner infers that the Christian MELITO'DES (MEAXL1Trah), i. e. sweet as
Scriptures had been already collected into a volume honey, occurs as a Euphemistic surname of Perseunder the title of The New Testament. 19. An phone. (Theocrit. xv. 94; Porphyr. Antr. Nymph.
extract from the work De Incarnatione Chzristi, p. 261.) [L. S.]
preserved by Anastasius Sinaita (flodeg. s. Dux ME'LIUS (MiAtos), the name of two mythical
Viae, c. 13), and exultingly appealed to by Cave personages, the one a son of Priam (Apollod. iii.
(Hist. Litt.) as showing Melito's orthodoxy as to 12. ~ 5), and the other'is commonly called Melus.
the two natures of Christ. The quotation, how- [MELUS. ] [L. S.]
ever, appears to be a summary of Melito's state- MELLA, ANNAEUS. [MELA.]
ments rather than an exact citation of his words. MELLOBAUDES or MALLOBAUDES, one
That Melito wrote in support of the two natures of of the Frankish kings of the time of the emperor
Christ is affirmed by an anonymous writer cited Gratian. He becomes known to us first as an
by Eusebius (H. E. v. 28). It is further ob- officer under the emperor Constantius in Gaul.
servable that Melito extends our Lord's ministry (Amm. Marc. xiv. 11, xv. 5.) He was afterto three years, contrary to the more general opinion wards distinguished by his victory over Maof his day. 20. A very brief extract from the crianus, king of the Alemanni, the date of
Oratio in Passionem, " God suffered by the right which is unknown. (Amm. Marc. xxx. 3.) In
hand of Israel," is also preserved by Anastasius the campaign of Gratian against the Alemanni,
(ibid. c. 12). Four extracts, perhaps from the A. D. 377, he was Comes domesticorum, and shared
Eclogae, in an ancient MS. Catena in Genesin. with Nannienus the chief military command, and
These fragments have been collected by the dili- had a principal part in the victory of Argentaria.
gence of successive writers. Those preserved by [GRATIANUS, No. 2.] Mellobaudes is sometimes
Eusebius, and the Chronicon Paschale, are given identified, it is difficult to say whether correctly or
by Halloix, in his Illustr. Eccles. Orient. Script. not, with Merobaudes, an active officer of the emSaec. 1T. together with three of the fragments perors Valentinian I. and Gratian. It was by his
from the Catena in Genesin. These fragments advice that on the death of Valentinian I. his son
from the Catena were enlarged by the diligence of of the same name, a child of four years old, was
Woog (Dissert. I. de Melitone) and Nicephorus made colleague in the empire with his brother
(Catena in Octateuch. 2 vols. fol. Lips. 1772-3). Gratian [GRATIANUS, No. 2], much to the dissaThe passages from Anastasius Sinaita are added in tisfaction of the latter. (Amm. Marc. xxx. 10.)
the Biblioth. Patrum of Galland, but he omits those Merobaudes was twice consul, A. D. 377 and 383.
from the Catena. The whole of the fragments of In the latter year he commanded the army of
Melito are given in the Reliquiae Sacrae of Routh Gratian against the usurper Maximus, and is com(vol. i. p. 109, &c. 8vo. Oxon. 1814, &c.), in which monly charged with betraying his master [GRAthe extracts from the Catena are fuller than in any TIANUS, No. 2], from which charge Tillemont (Hist.
previous edition. The notes to this edition are des Emp. vol. v. p. 723) defends him. At any
very valuable. rate he gained little by his treason, being soon
Labbe, in his book De Scriptor6b. Ecciesiast. put to death by Maximus. (Pacatus, Panegyric.
(vol. ii. p. 87), mentions a Latin version of the ad Theodos.) [J. C. C. M.]
Clavis of Melito, as being in his time extant in MS. MELLO'NA or MELLO'NIA, a Roman diviin the College of Clermont, at Paris. From a nity, who was believed to protect the honey, but
transcript of this MS. (collated with another), is otherwise unknown. (Aug. De Civ. Dei, iv. 34;
which is among the papers of Grabe, in the Bod- Arnob. adv. Gent. iv. 7, 8, 11.) [L. S.]
leian Library at Oxford, it appears to be much MELO'BIUS (M-Ag~os), was one of the thirty
interpolated, if indeed any part of it is genuine. tyrants established at Athens in B. c. 404, and was
It is a sort of vocabulary of the figurative terms of among those who were sent to the house of Lysias
Scripture, somewhat similar to the De Formulis and Polemarchus to apprehend them and seize their
Spiritualis Intelligentiae of Eucherius of Lyon. Cru- property. (Xen. Hell. ii. 3. ~ 2; Lys. c. Erat.
sius, and after his death Woog, had intended to p. 121.) [E. E.]
publish it; but it remains still in MS. Woog, in MELO'BOSIS or MELO'BOTE (MIrAXooaes
his Dissert. Secunda de Melitone, has given a sylla- or M14ogoT71 ), a nymph, said to have been a
bus of the Capita, and printed the first Caput as a daughter of Oceanus. (Hom. Hymn. in Cer. 420;
specimen. In the MS. in the Clermont College the Hes. Theog. 354; Paus. iv. 30. ~ 3; comp. DEauthor is termed Melitus or Miletus. It is pos- METER.) [L. S.]
sible that the fourth extract, given by Routh from MELPO'MENE (MeMrousrs), i. e. the singing
the Catena, is from the original Clavis of Melito. (goddess), one of the nine Muses, became after(Euseb. Hieronym. Chron. Paschale, Il.-cc. Hal- wards the Muse of Tragedy. (Hes. Theog. 77;
loix,. c.; Cave, Hist. Litt. ad ann. 170, vol. i. p. comp. MUSAE.) [L. S.]1
71, ed. Oxford, 1740-43; Tillemont, Mninoires, MELPO'MENUS (M irofslfvos), or the singer,
vol. ii. p. 407, &c., p. 663, &c.; Ceillier, Auteurs was a surname of Dionysus at Athens, and in the
Sacsres, vol. ii. p. 75, &c.; Lardner, Credibility, pt. Attic demos of Acharne. (Paus. i. 2. ~ 4, 31.
ii. ch. 15; Clericus (Le Clerc), Hist. Eccles. duos. ~ 3.) [L. S.]
primor. Saeculor. ad ann. 169, c. 8 —10; Ittigius, MELUS (Mjios). 1. A son of Manto, from
de Haeresiarch. sect. ii. c. xi.; Woog, Dissert. L de whom the sanctuary of Apollo Malloeis in Lesbos
Melitone; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. vii. p. 149, was believed to have derived its name. (Steph.
&c.; Semler, Hist. Eccles. Selecta Capita' Saec. II. Byz. s. v. MaAAlets.)
c. 5; Dupin, Nouvelle Biblioth. des Aut. Eccles.- 2. A Delian who fled to Cinyras in Cyprus.
vol. i. pt. i. ar.d ii. 8vo. Paris, 1698; Galland, Cinyras gave him his son Adonis as a companion,
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