Melissus

, a king of Crete, father to Meli a and Amalthæa. Hyginus , Poetic a Astronomic a , bk. 2 , ch. 13 .— Lac tanti us [Placid us] , bk. 1 , ch. 22 .――An admiral of the Samian fleet, B.C. 441. He was defeated by Pericles, . Plutarch , Pericles .――A philosopher of Samos, who maintained that the world was infinite, immovable, and without a vacuum. According to his doctrines, no one could advance any argument upon the power or attributes of Providence, as all human knowledge was weak and imperfect. Them is toc les was among his pupils. He flourished about 440 years before the christian era. Diogenes Laërtius. ――A freedman of Mecænas, appointed librarian to August us. He wrote some comedies. Ovid , ex Ponto , bk. 4 , ltr. 16 , li. 30 .— Suet on i us , Lives of the Grammarians .