Menelaus
παῖδας ἐκτεκνούμενος λάθρᾳ θνῄσκοντας ἀμελεῖ → having gotten children in secret, he abandons them to die
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
Μενέλαος, ὁ, Μενέλεως, -ω, ὁ (sometimes scanned as three syllables, Euripides, Hel. 131), or use Ἀτρείδης, -ου, ὁ, or say, son of Atreus.
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
Mĕnĕlāüs: i, m., = Μενέλαος.
I Son of Atreus, brother of Agamemnon, and husband of Helen, who eloped from him with Paris, Cic. Brut. 13, 50; id. Rep. 5, 9, 14; Auct. Her. 3, 21, 34; Ov. M. 13, 203; id. A. A. 2, 359.—
B Transf., a cuckold.— Jestingly of M. Lucullus, whose wife was seduced by C. Memmius, Cic. Att. 1, 18, 3.—
II Menelaus Marathenus, a Greek rhetorician, from the old Phoenician city of Marathus, Cic. Brut. 26, 100.—
III Menelai portus, a city with a port of the same name on the shore of the Mediterranean, between Cyrene and Egypt, Nep. Ages. 8, 6; also called Menelaita urbs, Edict. Justin. 13, 9, 2.—Hence, adj.: Mĕnĕlāĕus, a, um, of Menelaus, Prop. 2, 15 (3, 7), 14.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
Mĕnĕlāus¹¹ et -lāŏs, ī, m. (Μενέλαος),
1 Ménélas [époux d’Hélène] : Cic. Br. 50 ; Ov. M. 13, 203 ; Menelai portus Nep. Ages. 8, 6, port de Ménélas || Mĕnĕlāēus, a, um, de Ménélas : Prop. 2, 15, 14
2 autre du même nom : Cic. Br. 100.
Latin > German (Georges)
Menelāus u. -os, ī, m. (Μενέλαος), Sohn des Atreus, Bruder des Agamemnon, Gemahl der Helena, die ihm Paris entführte, Plaut. Bacch. 946. Cornif. rhet. 3, 34. Cic. Brut. 50. Ov. art. am. 2, 359: scherzh. von M. Lukullus, dessen Gemahlin von Memmius verführt wurde, Cic. ad Att. 1, 18, 3: Plur. appell. = betrogene Ehemänner, Helenae sequuntur Alexandros nec Menelaos pertimescunt, Hieron. epist. 128, 3. – Dav.: a) Menelāēus, a, um, menelaïsch, Prop. 2, 15, 14. – b) Menelāis, idis, f. (Μενελαΐς), die Menelaïde (= die Gemahlin des Menelaus), v. Helena, Diom. 323, 18.
