ANTONIO called MELISSA. — Greek monk of the 11th century, erroneously called *Melissa* from the title of his principal work, *Mélissa*, the *Bee*. The *Melissa* is a two-book collection of maxims and proverbs drawn from the Bible, the Fathers, and profane writers, on various points of morality, in the manner of the *Sacred Parallels* of St. JOHN DAMASCENE and the *Florilegium* attributed to St. MAXIMUS the Confessor. A. left a more personal work entitled *Χρηστός*, a kind of etiquette for youth, divided into 9 chapters.
Published by Conrad Gesner in Zurich (1546) with a Latin version, the *Melissa* has had many editions. PG 136, 765-1244 reproduces the Gesner edition. The *Χρηστός* is that published in Venice (1813) by Damascene Papagno-topoulos.