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Thyestes , ae, m., = Θυέστης,
I.son of Pelops and brother of Atreus, who set before him for food the flesh of his own son; he was the father of Ægisthus, Hyg. Fab. 88; Plaut. Rud. 2, 6, 25; Cic. Tusc. 3, 12, 26; Hor. A. P. 91; id. C. 1, 16, 17; Pers. 5, 8.— Hence,
A. Thyestēus , a, um, adj., of or belonging to Thyestes, Thyestean: “Mycenae,” Luc. 1, 544: “mensa,” Ov. P. 4, 6, 47; id. M. 15, 462: “exsecratio,” Cic. Pis. 19, 43; cf. “preces,” Hor. Epod. 5, 86: “more furere,” Sen. Contr. 1, 1 med.—
B. Thyestĭădes , ae, m., the (male) offspring of Thyestes; said of Ægisthus, Ov. A. A. 2, 407; Claud. VI. Cons. Hon. 113.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (9):
    • Cicero, Against Piso, 19.43
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 15.462
    • Plautus, Rudens, 2.6
    • Horace, Ars Poetica, 91
    • Lucan, Civil War, 1.544
    • Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes, 3.12
    • Ovid, Ex Ponto, 4.6
    • Persius, Saturae, 5
    • Seneca the Elder, Controversiae, 1.1
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