Neoptolemus
From LSJ
Κύριε, βοήθησον τὸν δοῦλον σου Νῖλον κτλ. → Lord, help your slave Nilos ... (mosaic inscription from 4th-cent. church in the Negev)
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
Νεοπτόλεμος, ὁ (often scanned as four syllables), or say, son of Achilles.
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
Nĕoptŏlĕmus: i, m., = Νεοπτόλεμος>.
I The son of Achilles, also called Pyrrhus, Cic. de Or. 2, 63, 257; id. Lael. 20, 75; Verg. A. 2, 263.—Hence,
B The name of a tragedy of Ennius, the hero of which was Neoptolemus, Cic. Rep. 1, 18, 30; id. Tusc. 2, 1, 1; id. de Or. 2, 37, 156; Gell. 5, 15, 9; 5, 16, 5; App. Mag. p. 281 (Vahl. and Rib. put these passages under Incerti Nominis Reliquiae). —
II One of Alexander's generals, who was defeated by Eumenes, Nep. Eum. 4, 1.
