Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology/Philomeleides

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Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870)
Various Authors, edited by William Smith

Philomeleides

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1854422Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology — Philomeleides1870Various Authors

PHILOMELEIDES (Φιλομηλείδης), a king in Lesbos who compelled his guests to engage with him in a contest of wrestling, and was conquered by Odysseus (Hom. Od. iv. 343, xvii. 134). Some commentators take this name to be a metronymic derived from Philomela, No. 2. [L. S.]