Admetus

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

Admētus, i, m.

I In mythology, a king of Pherae , in Thessaly , the husband of Alcestis , whose sheep Apollo was condemned by Jupiter to tend for a long time , Serv. ad Verg. G. 3, 9; id. A. 7, 761 (cf. Alcestis).—

II In hist., a king of the Molossi , the friend and protector of Themistocles , Nep. Them. 8.