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テオクリトスの『''イディール''(Idylls)』には、マリス(Μαλίς)という名の水のニンフが登場する<ref>Payne, 2019, p242</ref>。ユニカ、ニケイア<ref>Serangeli, 2015, p378</ref>という2人のニンフとともにプロポンティス島のキオスに住み、ハイラスを誘拐した張本人である<ref>Rutherford, 2020, p330</ref>。
A water [[nymph]] ([[naiad]]) named Malis (Μαλίς) is attested in [[Theocritus]]' ''Idylls''. Alongside two other nymphs, Eunika and Nicheia,{{sfn|Serangeli|2015|p=378}} she resided in [[Kios]] on [[Propontis]], and together they were responsible for the abduction of [[Hylas]].{{sfn|Rutherford|2020|p=330}} Ian Rutherford notes that view that Malis was a river nymph appears to align with the original role of Maliya as a river goddess.{{sfn|Rutherford|2020|p=331}} [[Sophocles]] in the play ''[[Philoctetes (Sophocles play)|Philoctetes]]'' mentions a plurality of nymphs with a similar name,{{sfn|Payne|2019|p=242}} [[Meliae|Maliades]] (Μαλιάδες) from the river [[Spercheios]].{{sfn|Serangeli|2015|p=379}} However, according to Rutherford, they are most likely not related to the singular Malis, and should be assumed to be connected to [[Malians (Greek tribe)|Malis]] in Greece instead.{{sfn|Rutherford|2020|p=330}}
In a different Greek tradition Malis, while associated with Lydia, was only regarded as a slave of [[Omphale]], a mythical queen of this realm.{{sfn|Haas|2015|p=411}}{{sfn|Rutherford|2020|p=330}} This view can be found in the works of [[Stephanus of Byzantium]] and [[Hellanicus of Lesbos|Hellanikos]].{{sfn|Payne|2019|p=242}} According to the latter of these two authors, she had a son with [[Heracles]], Akeles, which might reflect a tradition in which the goddess Malis was worshiped alongside Sandas, an Anatolian god identified with the Greek hero, though there is no certain evidence in favor of this interpretation,{{sfn|Rutherford|2017|p=91}} and no known texts from the second millennium BCE associate them with each other.{{sfn|Watkins|2007|p=123}}