I.the son of Thyestes, who murdered Atreus and Agamemnon, with whose wife, Clytœmnestra, he lived in incest, and was finally slain by Orestes, Cic. N. D. 3, 38; Ov. R. Am. 161.— “Hence, Pompey called Cæsar Ægisthus, on account of his adulterous connection with Mucia,” Suet. Caes. 50.
Aegisthus , i, m., = Αἴγισθος,
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.
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