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Menelaus

Menelaus · m

Son of Atreus, brother of Agamemnon, and husband of Helen, who eloped from him with Paris

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Where it lives

Epitaphia heroum qui bello Troico interfuerunt 1 · 8.33/10k
Agesilaus 1 · 7.2/10k
Ausonii Burdigalensis Vasatis Gratiarum Actio Ad Grati Angratianum Imperatorem Pro Consulatu 2 · 4.83/10k
Remedia Amoris 2 · 3.81/10k
Epistulae 9 · 3.52/10k
Agamemnon 1 · 1.8/10k
Thyestes 1 · 1.59/10k
Troades 1 · 1.47/10k
Bacchides 1 · 1.01/10k
Satyricon 3 · 0.99/10k
Brutus 2 · 0.8/10k
Elegiae 2 · 0.79/10k

Densest 12 of 30 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Mĕnĕlāüs — Lewis & Short

Mĕnĕlāüs, i, m., = *mene/laos.

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.

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