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Melicerta, Melicertae

Melicerta, Melicertes

Μελικέρτης

noun (m., 1^st declension)

son of Ino and the Theban king Athamas. His mother, pursued by her husband in his madness, threw herself into the sea with Melicerta, who became a seagod, called by the Greeks
and by the Romans

Abbreviations

Melicerta and Melicertes, ae, m., = Μελικέρτης, son of Ino and the Theban king Athamas. His mother, pursued by her husband in his madness, threw herself into the sea with Melicerta, who became a seagod, called by the Greeks Palaemon, and by the Romans Portunus, Ov. M. 4, 522; cf. Verg. G. 1, 437; Ov. F. 6, 485 sq.; Pers. 5, 103.