Melinno

(Μελιννώ), a lyric poetess. Works Ode to Rome

the author of an ode on Rome in five Sapphic stanzas, which is commonly ascribed to Erinna of Lesbos. Nothing is known of her with certainty, except what the ode itself shows, namely, that she lived in the flourishing period of the Roman empire. Works

The ode is printed, with an admirable essay upon it, by Welcker, in Creuzer's Melectemata, 1817, p.1, and in Welcker's Kleine Schrifien, vol. ii. p. 160. [P.S]

(Μελιννώ). A Greek poetess, the author of an ode to Rome consisting of five Sapphics usually ascribed to Erinna. See Welcker's Kleine Schriften, ii. p. 160.