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|Text=[[File:woodhouse_1006.jpg|thumb|link={{filepath:woodhouse_1006.jpg}}]]Κλυταιμνήστρα, ἡ, or say, <b class="b2">daughter of Leda.</b>
|Text=[[File:woodhouse_1006.jpg|thumb|link={{filepath:woodhouse_1006.jpg}}]]Κλυταιμνήστρα, ἡ, or say, <b class="b2">daughter of Leda.</b>
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|lshtext=<b>Clytaemnēstra</b>: (Clytemnēstra, Liv. Andron. 11 Rib.; [[mutilated]] [[into]] Cly-temēstra, Cass. Hemin. ap. Serv. ad Verg. A. 7, 631; [[hence]] the [[second]] [[syllable]] [[short]] in Aus. Epit. Her. 1, 1, 4), ae, f., = [[Κλυταιμνήστρα]]>,<br /><b>I</b> the [[daughter]] of Tyndarus and [[Leda]], and [[sister]] of Helen, [[Castor]], and [[Pollux]]; [[wife]] of [[Agamemnon]] and [[mother]] of [[Orestes]], [[Iphigenia]], and [[Electra]]; she, [[with]] her [[paramour]], [[Aegisthus]], murdered her [[husband]] on his [[return]] from [[Troy]], and [[was]] on [[that]] [[account]] [[put]] to [[death]] by her [[son]] [[Orestes]], Hyg. Fab. 117 and 240; Serv. ad Verg. A. 2, 601; 3, 331; 4, 471; Auct. Her. 1, 10, 17; 1, 16, 21; Cic. Inv. 1, 13, 18; Ov. Am. 1, 7, 9; id. Nux, 26.—<br /><b>II</b> As [[title]] of a [[tragedy]] of [[Attius]], Cic. Off. 1, 31, 14; id. Fam. 7, 1, 2 al.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Appellative for an [[unfaithful]] [[wife]], Cael. ap. Quint. 8, 6, 53.
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