Me les i genes

(See also Maeonides.) P. R. 4. 259. A name applied to Homer because he was said to have been born at Smyrna, in Ionia, on the banks of the River Meles. Meliboea. P. L. 11. 242. A maritime town of The aly, now called Kastri, at the foot of Mount O a. After it was named a purple dye mentioned by “A cloak with ti ue of gold, round the hem of which in Virgil: deep hue ran Melibcean purple with a double wavy edge.” {Mneid 5. 250-1.) Melind. P. L. 11. 399. (See also Mombaza.) A town on the coast of British East Africa. following description: Purchas gives the “A little beyond [Mombaza] is the King do me of Melinde, which being likewise but a little one, extends itselfe is upon the Sea Coast.... Neere unto the Sea... there a great deale of Countrey inhabited by Pagans and Mahometans, of colour almost white. Their houses are built after our The Women are white, and sumptuously dre ed, Arabian fashion, with Cloath of Silke. About their neckes, and hands, and armes, and feet, they use to wear jewels of Gold and Silver. When they go abroad out of their houses^ they cover themselves with Taffata, so that they are not known but when they list themselves. In this Countrey there is a very good Haven, which is a landing place for the Ve els that sayle through those Seas. Generally, the people are very kind, true, and trustie, and converse with Strangers. They have alwaies entertained and welcomed the Portugals, and have reposed great confidence in them, neither have they ever offered them any wrong in any respect.” (Pilgrimes 2. 1024.) MeHnde is prominent in the Lusiads of Camoens. (2. 57-6. 5.) fashion.... after the 201