Aegisthus: Difference between revisions
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Revision as of 16:12, 18 May 2020
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
Αἴγισθος, ὁ, or say, son of Thyestes.
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
Aegisthus: i, m., = Αἴγισθος,
I the son of Thyestes, who murdered Atreus and Agamemnon, with whose wife, Clytœmnestra, he lived in incest, and was finally slain by Orestes, Cic. N. D. 3, 38; Ov. R. Am. 161.— Hence, Pompey called Cæsar Ægisthus, on account of his adulterous connection with Mucia, Suet. Caes. 50.
Latin > German (Georges)
Aegisthus, ī, m. (Αἴγισθος), Sohn des Thyestes, Verführer der Klytämnestra u. mit deren Beihilfe Mörder ihres Gatten Agamemnon, von Orestes erschlagen, Cic. de nat. deor. 3, 91. Ov. rem. 161. – appellat., ein Ägisthus = ein Ehebrecher, Suet. Caes. 50, 1.
