Aegisthus

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

Aegisthus, i, m., = Αἴγισθος,

the son of Thyestes , who murdered Atreus and Agamemnon , with whose wife , Clytaemnestra , he lived in incest , and was finally slain by Orestes , Cic. N. D. 3, 38; Ov. R. Am. 161.— Hence, Pompey called Caesar Aegisthus, on account of his adulterous connection with Mucia, Suet. Caes. 50.