Mĕla, ae, m. [prob. from μέλας],
a Roman proper name , Cic. Phil. 13, 2, 3: Pomponius Mela, a Roman geographer, a native of Spain, under the emperor Claudius; v. Teuffel, Röm. Litt. § 291.
MELA or MELLA, a river of Gallia Transpadana, still called the Mella, which rises in the Alps, flows...
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