Melite

He built this temple near his own house, in the district called Melite, where now the public officers carry out the bodies of such as are executed, and throw the halters and clothes of those that are strangled or otherwise put to death.

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

He built this temple near his own house, in the district called Melite, where now the public officers carry out the bodies of such as are executed, and throw the halters and clothes of those that are strangled or otherwise put to death.

Themistocles Plutarch 1909

St. Paul, as we find recorded in the Acts of the Apostles, was on his way to trial in Rome when a storm caused all the two hundred seventy six (276) passengers on board the vessel to seek shelter on the Island of Malta, then known as Melite, which was a Roman possession.

The Daily Register NCRegister 2010

His dramatic career began with the comedy of "Melite," but it was by his

Polyeucte Pierre Corneille 1645

Pasithea and Erato, Eunike of the rose arms, and graceful Melite and Eulimene and Agauë,

Historical References to the Oceanides 2008

Macris, the nurse of Dionysus, to cleanse himself from the deadly murder of his children; here he loved and overcame the water nymph Melite, the daughter of the river Aegaeus, and she bare mighty Hyllus.

The Argonautica 2008

And next they passed Melite, rejoicing in the soft-blowing breeze, and steep Cerossus, and Nymphaea at

The Argonautica 2008

Hyllus still alive in the land, whom fair Melite bare to Heracles in the land of the Phaeacians.

The Argonautica 2008

Then the seeress — her name was Melite — walked with Hekabe to the prophecy flame.

Shield of Thunder Gemmell, David 2006

All the priestesses knew that Melite had once been a seeress, but now that she was half-blind and touched in the head, her words were often meaningless.

Shield of Thunder Gemmell, David 2006