*mela/mpous: mantikh=s ei)dh/mwn. o( de\ su/mbolos *mela/mpodos h)\ *po/llhtos e)de/eto. ou(=toi de\ h)=san a)/ristoi kri/nein ta\ me/llonta.
[1] Legendary soothsayer, mentioned in e.g.
Homer,
Odyssey 15.225;
Herodotus 2.49. See generally Jan N. Bremmer in OCD4 s.v.
Melampus(1).
[2] Also quoted under
sigma 1376. Attributed by Bernhardy to
Aelian, but probably (as Adler) a careless approximation of
Marinus,
Life of Proclus lines 265-267 Masullo: "who could ever be a clearer councillor than him, someone who was no lesser than Polles or
Melampus or their like in judgement?"
[3] Adler suggests this comment might come from a scholion on Gregory of Nazianzus; cf. PG 36.1009b. (Note however that at
sigma 1376 this statement is differently worded and appears to be connected -- by
ga/r, not
de/ -- with the remark about
Melampus and Polles.)
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