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Meleager

Meleager · m

son of the Calydonian king Œneus and Althæa, one of the combatants at the Calydonian boar-hunt. His life depended on…

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Where it lives

Historiae Alexandri Magni 15 · 2.02/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

Mĕlĕăger — Lewis & Short

Mĕlĕăger and Mĕlĕăgros (-ag-rus), gri, m., = *mele/agros,

I son of the Calydonian king Œneus and Althæa, one of the combatants at the Calydonian boar-hunt. His life depended on the preservation of an extinguished brand; this his mother burned, out of revenge for the death of her brothers who had fallen by his hand, and he expired, Ov. M. 8, 299 sq.; id. H. 9, 151; Val. Fl. 1, 435; Hyg. Fab. 171 sq.; Serv. Verg. A. 7, 306.—Hence,

A Mĕlĕāgrēus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Meleager, Luc. 6, 365.—

B Mĕlĕāgrĭdes, um, f.

1 The sisters of Meleager, who, according to the fable, bitterly lamented his death, and were changed into birds called after his name, Hyg. Fab. 174; Ov. M. 8, 534 sq.—

2 A kind of fowls, Guinea-hens, the same as Gallinae Africanae, or a variety of them, Varr. R. R. 3, 9, 18; Plin. 10, 26, 38, § 74.—

C Mĕlĕāgrĭus, a, um, adj., = *melea/grios, of or belonging to Meleager, Meleagrian, Stat. Th. 4, 103.

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