In Greek mythology, Mendeis (Ancient Greek: Μενδέις) was a Thracian nymph who became the mother of Pallene by King Sithon. Her husband had the habit of killing one by one the suitors of her daughter.Conon, Narrations 10 In some accounts, Pallene's mother was called Anchiroe instead.Tzetzes on Lycophron, 1161 Mendeis might have been associated with the city of Mende.
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Conon, Fifty Narrations, surviving as one-paragraph summaries in the Bibliotheca (Library) of Photius, Patriarch of Constantinople translated from the Greek by Brady Kiesling. Online version at the Topos Text Project.