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Melibeus (and the feminine form Melibea) comes from the Greek Måëßâïéïò, Latinizated in Melibeus, and these from ìÝëù, "to concern, to take care", and âïõò, âïüò, "ox, cow, bull", with the meaning "the caretaker of ox".
Melibeus was the name of a shepherd in Virgil's Bucolics (1st century). The feminine Melibea was used by Fernando de Rojas in Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea (more kwon as La Celestina) (1499).

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