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Aegisthus (noun M) : Αἴγισθος
* The son of Thyestes, who murdered Atreus and Agamemnon, with whose wife, Clytoemnestra, he lived in incest, and was finally slain by Orestes, Cic. N. D. 3, 38; Ov. R. Am. 161.— Hence, Pompey called Caesar Aegisthus, on account of his adulterous connection with Mucia,Suet. Caes. 50.
* The son of Thyestes, who murdered Atreus and Agamemnon, with whose wife, Clytoemnestra, he lived in incest, and was finally slain by Orestes, Cic. N. D. 3, 38; Ov. R. Am. 161.— Hence, Pompey called Caesar Aegisthus, on account of his adulterous connection with Mucia,Suet. Caes. 50.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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