| E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898. |
| | | Melampode (3 syl.). | | |
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Black hellebore; so called from Melampus, a famous soothsayer and physician, who cured with it the daughters of Prætus of their melancholy. (Virgil: Georgics, iii. 550.) | 1 |
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| “My seely sheep, like well below, |
| They need not melampode; |
| For they been hale enough I trow. |
| And liken their abode.” | |
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