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LNS

Ephiāltēs, Ephiāltae

Ephialtes

Ἐφιάλτης

noun (m., 1^st Greek declension)

The son of Aloeus and brother of Otus, one of the stormers of heaven, killed by Apollo
The betrayer of the Spartans at Thermopyiae

Abbreviations

Ephiāltes (Ephiālta, ae, Sid. praef. Carm. 7, 25), ae, m., = Ἐφιάλτης. The son of Aloeus and brother of Otus, one of the stormers of heaven, killed by Apollo, Hyg. Fab. 28; Claud. B. Get. 75; Verg. Cul. 234.

— The betrayer of the Spartans at Thermopyiae, Front. Strat. 2, 2, 13.