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                    "reference": "Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (ed. William Smith 1870), Wikisource | public domain",
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                    "description": "Proper name\n<ul>\n<li>MENALIPPUS (Μενάλιππος, an equivalent form to Μελάνιππος), an architect, probably of Athens, who, in conjunction with the Roman architects, C. and M. Stallius, was employed by Ariobarzanes II. (Philopator), king of Cappadocia, to restore the Odeum of Pericles, which had been burnt in the Mithridatic war, in Ol. 173, 3, B. C. 86–5. The exact date of the restoration is unknown; but Ariobarzanes reigned from B. C. 63 to about B. C. 51. (Böckh, Corp. Insc. vol. i. No. 357; Vitruv. v. 9. 1.) (<a href='https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Dictionary_of_Greek_and_Roman_Biography_and_Mythology\/Menalippus_1.'>Wikisource<\/a> | public domain)<\/li>\n<li>MENALIPPUS. [Melanippus.] (<a href='https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Dictionary_of_Greek_and_Roman_Biography_and_Mythology\/Menalippus_2.'>Wikisource<\/a> | public domain)\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>"
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                    "description": "Mĕnălippus | Mĕlănip-pus (noun M) : (orig. form ), , , = Μελάνιππος\n* The slayer of Tydeus, who, while dying, bit the head of Menalippus, Stat. Th. 8, 719; 740.—The form Melanippus is found as the name of a tragedy of Attius, Cic. Tusc. 3, 9, 20."
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