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SPERCHIOS (River) FTHIOTIDA
Maliades(numphai), nymphs who were worshipped as the protectors of flocks and of fruit-trees. They are also called Melides or Epimelides. (Theocrit. i. 22, with Valck. note, xiii. 45; Eustath. ad Hom. p. 1963.) The same name is also given to the nymphs of the district of the Malians on the river Spercheius. (Soph. Philoct. 725.)
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