Mezentĭus | Mezzent-, Mesdent-, Messent-, Mēdient- | Mēdent- (noun M) : (not , or ; cf. Rib. in Rhein. Mus. 1857, vol. 12, p. 418 sq.)
* A male proper name [of Oscan origin], a tyrant of Caere or Agylla, Liv. 1, 2; Paul. ex Fest. s. v. oscillum, p. 194 Müll.: contemptor divom Mezentius,Verg. A. 7, 648 sq.; cf. Macr. S. 3, 5; and Serv Verg. A. 1, 267; 7, 760; 9, 745.