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Meliae (also
called Meliads) (/ˈmiːli.iː/;
Ancient Gr****: Μελίαι, romanized:
Melíai or Μελιάδες, Meliádes) were
usually considered to be the
nymphs of the ash...
- classification. e.g.
dryads and
hamadryads as
nymphs of
trees generally,
meliai as
nymphs of ash trees. The
following is not the
authentic Gr**** classification...
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Identification and Location, 1993:26.
Compare dryads and the ash-tree
nymphs called meliai. The
festival is
attested by Hesychius, s.v. "Caryai". Stewart, Michael...
- with
another prophecy that
Apollo dreads. They get out with the help of
Meliai, ash-tree
spirits Meg had
earlier planted. They kill
Medea and Incitatus...
- " From
these same
drops of
blood also came the
Erinyes (Furies) and the
Meliai (ash tree nymphs),
while the
severed genitals of Ur****
falling into the...
- they
helped to slay
Incitatus and the
Pandai soldiers with him. Then the
Meliai transplanted themselves and put
their roots around the pool at the ruins...
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splattered onto the earth, came the
Erinyes (Furies), the Giants, and the
Meliai.
Cronus threw the
severed genitals into the sea,
around which foam developed...
- the
Nymphs were
called Epimelides and
three categories of them are known:
Meliai,
Dryades and Heleioi.
Another category of
Nymphs is that of the Vrisians...
