Mĕlas, ănis and ae, m., = Μέλας (black).
I The name of several rivers.
1 A river of Boeotia , now Mavropotami , Plin. 2, 103, 106, § 230; Sen. Q. N. 3, 25, 3; Stat. Th. 7, 273.—
2 A river of Thrace , now Kavatch , Liv. 38, 40, 5; Mel. 2, 2, 8; Ov. M. 2, 274; Plin. 4, 11, 18, § 43.—
3 A river of Sicily , now Nocito : sacrorumque Melan pascua laeta boum, Ov. F. 4, 476.—
4 A river of Cappadocia , now Jochmah Su , Plin. 6, 4, 4, § 11.—
5 A river of Cilicia , Plin. 5, 27, 22, § 93.—
II A son of Phryxus , Hyg. Fab. 3.—
III One of the Etruscan seamen whom Bacchus changed into dolphins , Hyg. Fab. 134.