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Aegisthus

Aegisthus · m

the son of Thyestes

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Agamemnon 7 · 12.59/10k
Remedia Amoris 1 · 1.91/10k
Divus Julius 1 · 1.03/10k
Tristia 1 · 0.44/10k
Epistulae 1 · 0.39/10k
de Natura Deorum 1 · 0.28/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

Aegisthus — Lewis & Short

Aegisthus, i, m., = *ai)/gisqos,

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.

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