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                    "description": "Mĕlas (noun M) : Μέλας (black).\n* The name of several rivers.\n* A river of Boeotia, now Mavropotami, Plin. 2, 103, 106, § 230; Sen. Q. N. 3, 25, 3; Stat. Th. 7, 273.\n* A son of Phryxus, Hyg. Fab. 3.\n* One of the Etruscan seamen whom Bacchus changed into dolphins, Hyg. Fab. 134.\n* A river of Cappadocia, now Jochmah Su, Plin. 6, 4, 4, § 11.\n* A river of Cilicia, Plin. 5, 27, 22, § 93."
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