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(adjective) : Mĕnĕlāüs, i, m., = Μενέλαος.
* 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.
* Transf., a cuckold.— Jestingly of M. Lucullus,whose wife was seduced by C. Memmius,Cic. Att. 1, 18, 3.
* Menelaus Marathenus, a Greek rhetorician, from the old Phoenician city of Marathus, Cic. Brut. 26, 100.
* 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, : Mĕnĕlāĕus, a, um, of Menelaus, Prop. 2, 15 (3, 7), 14.
* 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.
* Transf., a cuckold.— Jestingly of M. Lucullus,whose wife was seduced by C. Memmius,Cic. Att. 1, 18, 3.
* Menelaus Marathenus, a Greek rhetorician, from the old Phoenician city of Marathus, Cic. Brut. 26, 100.
* 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, : Mĕnĕlāĕus, a, um, of Menelaus, Prop. 2, 15 (3, 7), 14.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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