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Atreus

noun
1.
(Greek mythology) the king of Mycenae and father of Agamemnon and of Menelaus.





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... Plutarch says the Consuls fled without making the sacrifices usual before wars. ("Pomp." 61.) (21) Compare Ben Jonson's "Catiline," I. 1: — Lecca: The day goes back, Or else my senses. Curius: As at Atreus' feast. (22) When the Theban brothers, Eteocles and Polynices, were being burned on the same pyre, the flame shot up in two separate tongues, indicating that even in death they could not be reconciled. (Mr. Haskins' note, citing Statius, "Thebiad") (23) "Shook the ...
— Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars • Lucan


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