Meaning of Menoetius | Babel Free

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1. A Titan, son of Iapetus and Clymene, he had three brothers: Atlas, Prometheus and Epimetheus. He joined Cronus and the Titans in their unsuccessful war against the Olympian gods. Zeus killed him with a thunderbolt and sent him down to Tartarus.
   Greek
2. Archaic spelling of Menoetius.
   alt-of, archaic
3. One of Hades' shepherds on Erythea. He told Geryon when Heracles stole Geryon's herd.
   Greek
4. Father of Patroclus and son of Actor. (Iliad, XI, 765)
   Greek

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“Iapetus.—A Titan, married to Clymene, according to Hesiod; to Asia, according to Apollodorus. He was the father of Atlas, Menœtius, Prometheus, and Epimetheus; and was looked on by the Greeks as the ancestor of the human race.”

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