εἰ μὴ μάλα γέ τινες ὀλίγοι ὧν ἐγὼ ἐντετύχηκα → apart from a very few whom I've met
mēlo: ōnis, m., = μῆλον,I an apple-shaped melon, for melopepo, Pall. 4, 9, 6; Vop. Carin. 17.
