Eteocles

English > Greek (Woodhouse)

Ἐτεοκλῆς, -κλέους, ὁ, V. also Ἐτεοκλέης (Aesch., Theb. 6), or say, son of Oedipus.

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

Ĕtĕōclēs: is and ĕos, m., = Ἐτεοκλῆς,
I son of Oedipus and Jocasta, brother of Polynices; he was the cause of the Theban war, described by the Roman poet Statius in the Thebais, Cic. Off. 3, 21, 82; Hyg. Fab. 76; gen. Eteoclis, Stat. Th. 3, 214: Eteocleos, id. ib. 12, 421; acc. Eteoclea, id. ib. 7, 688.— Hence,
II Ĕtĕōclēus, a, um, adj., of Eteocles: contentiones, App. M. 10, p. 245, 30.