2.5.4
- So passing through Pholoe he was entertained by the centaur Pholus, a son of Silenus by a Melian nymph.2
- 2 As to these nymphs, see Hesiod, Th. 187. The name perhaps means an ash-tree nymph (from μελία, an ash tree), as Dryad means an oak tree nymph (from δρῦς, an oak tree).
Aetia fr. 75.62 (Trypanis, Gelzer, and Whitman, pp, 60, 61)
- and how Ceos, son of Phoebus and Melia,
fr. 21 Fowler 2001, p. 289 (= FGrHist 3 F 21 = Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 3.1177-87f)
- Fowler 2001, p. 289
12.4.8
- and when Alexander the Aetolian says,“who have their homes on the Ascanian streams, on the lips of the Ascanian Lake, where dwelt Dolion the son of Silenus and Melia,”
14.5.29
- and by Alexander the Aetolian, “who have their homes on the Ascanian streams, on the lips of the Ascanian Lake, where dwelt Dolion, the son of Silenus and Melia." And he says that the country round Cyzicus, as one goes to Miletupolis, is called Dolionis and Mysia.