Melampus
Americannoun
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His father, the King Emperor, did indeed command H. M. S. Melampus in his youth.
From Time Magazine Archive
The King also demanded to see two relics of his youth, when he was Captain of H. M. S. Melampus.
From Time Magazine Archive
Tertullian accuses the Valentinians of having adopted the custom of venerating them; a custom, he says, introduced by Melampus from Egypt into Greece.
From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike
The Greeks pretended that the daughters of Prœtus, smitten with insanity by Bacchus, were restored to reason by the shepherd Melampus, who gave them some milk drawn from goats that had eaten hellebore.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen
Within a month from their escape from the Melampus, the first three of these deserters offered themselves for enlistment, and were received on board the Chesapeake, then at Norfolk, Va., preparing for sea.
From The Black Phalanx African American soldiers in the War of Independence, the War of 1812, and the Civil War by Joseph T. (Joseph Thomas) Wilson
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