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MELAMPUS , in See also:Greek See also:legend, a celebrated seer and physician, son of Amythaon and Eidomene, See also:brother of See also:Bias, mythical See also:eponymous See also:hero of the See also:family of the Melampodidae. Two See also:young serpents, whose See also:life he had saved, licked his ears while he slept, and from that See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time he understood the See also:language of birds. and beasts. In the See also:art of See also:divination he received instruction from See also:Apollo himself. To gain the consent of See also:Neleus, See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of See also:Pylos, to the See also:marriage of his daughter Pero with Bias, Melampus
undertook to obtain See also:possession of the oxen of the Thessalian See also:prince Iphiclus. As Melampus had foretold, he was caught and imprisoned, but was released by Phylacus (the See also:father of Iphiclus) on giving See also:- PROOF (in M. Eng. preove, proeve, preve, &°c., from O. Fr . prueve, proeve, &c., mod. preuve, Late. Lat. proba, probate, to prove, to test the goodness of anything, probus, good)
proof of his See also:powers of divination, and was finally presented with the oxen as a See also:reward for having restored the virility of the son. Melampus subsequently obtained a See also:share in the See also:kingdom of See also:Argos in return for having cured the daughters of its king Proetus, who had been driven mad for offering resistance to the See also:worship of See also:Dionysus or for stealing the See also:gold from the statue of See also:Hera. At Aegosthena in See also:Megara there was a See also:sanctuary of Melampus, and an See also:annual festival was held in his See also:honour. According to See also:Herodotus, he introduced the cult of Dionysus into See also:Greece from See also:Egypt, and his name (" See also:black See also:foot ") is probably " a symbolical expression of his See also:character as a Bacchic propitiatory See also:priest and seer " (See also:Preller). According to the traditional explanation, he was so called from his foot having been tanned by exposure to the See also:sun when a boy. In his character of physician, he was the reputed discoverer of the See also:herb melampodium, a See also:kind of See also:hellebore. Melampus and Bias are symbolical representatives of cunning and force.
See See also:Apollodorus i. 9, II, 12; H. 2, 2; Odyssey, xv. 225–240; Diod. Sic. iv. 68; Herodotus ii. 49; ix. 34; See also:Pausanias H. 18, 4; iv. 36, 3; scholiast on See also:Theocritus iii. 43; See also:Ovid, Metam. xv. 325; C. See also:Eckermann, Melampus and win Geschlecht (1840).
Melampus is also the name of the author of a See also:short extant See also:treatise of little value on Divination by means of Palpitation (IIaX is v) and Birthmarks ('EXa_%w). It probably See also:dates from the time of See also:Ptolemy Philadelphus (3rd cent. B.C.). Edition by J. G. See also:Franz in Scriptures physiognomiae veteres (178o).
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