Electra

English > Greek (Woodhouse)

Ἠλέκτρα, ἡ, or say, daughter of Agamemnon.

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

Ēlectra: ae (nom. with long
I a, Prop. 2, 14, 5 (3, 6, 5 M.); Ov. F. 4, 177; Cic. Arat. 36; acc.: Electrān, Ov. Tr. 2, 395; id. F. 4, 32; 174), f., = Ἠλέκτρα.
I Daughter of Atlas and Pleione, one of the seven Pleiades, and mother of Dardanus by Jupiter, Ov. F. 4, 31 sq.; 174; Verg. A. 8, 135; Serv. ib. 7, 207; 10, 272; Hyg. Fab. 155 and 192. —Hence, Ēlectrĭus, a, um, adj.: tellus, i. e. Samothrace, Val. Fl. 2, 431.—
II Daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, and sister of Orestes, Prop. 2, 14, 5 (3, 6, 5 M.); Hor. S. 2, 3, 140; Vell. 1, 1, 3; Juv. 8, 218; Hyg. Fab. 117; 122; Serv. Verg. A. 4, 471.—Also the name of a tragedy, Ov. Tr. 2, 395; Suet. Caes. 84.—
III A Danaïd, Hyg. Fab. 170.—
An Oceanid, wife of Thaumas, and mother of the Harpies, Serv. Verg. A. 3, 212; 241.

Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)

Ēlectra,¹² æ, f. (Ἠλέκτρα), Électre [fille d’Atlas, mère de Dardanus : Virg. En. 8, 135