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title: Delphic Historical Fragments
title_greek: Ἀπόσπασμα
author: Melisseus the Historian
eul_wid: gjk-aa
eul_aid: gjk
canonical: "https://eulogikon.org/works/melisseus-delphic-fragments-gjk-aa"
period: Classical
dialect: Attic (frg)
domain: History
format: Prose
license: "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/"
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# Delphic Historical Fragments

*Ἀπόσπασμα*

**Author:** Melisseus the Historian

**eul_wid:** `gjk-aa` · [HTML page](https://eulogikon.org/works/melisseus-delphic-fragments-gjk-aa)

## Text

## ΔΕΛΦΙΚΑ.

### 1

Schol. Hesiod. Opp.: Ἡ μὲν Πιερία πρότερον ὑπὸ Πιέρου κτισθεῖσα τοῦ Μεθώνης ἀδελφοῦ, πατρὸς δὲ Λίνου, Πιερία ἐκέκλητο· ὕστερον δὲ Λύγκος ἐκλήθη, ἧς καὶ τὴν ἀρχὴν ἔσχεν Ἀέροπος, ὁ πρεσβύτατος τῶν Ἠμαθίωνος παίδων, καθὰ Μελισσεύς φησιν ὁ τὰ Δελφικὰ συνταξάμενος.

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