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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.
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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    • Cicero, Letters to Atticus, 1.18.3
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 13.203
    • Cornelius Nepos, Agesilaus, 8.6
    • Cicero, De Republica, 5.9
    • Sextus Propertius, Elegies, 2.15
    • Cicero, Brutus, 13.50
    • Cicero, Brutus, 26.100
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