Alcmena

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

Alcmēna or Alcŭmēna, ae, also Alcmēnē, ēs, f. (always Alcumena in Plaut. Am.:

Alcmene, Ov. M. 9, 276; gen., Gr. Dor. Alcumenās, Plaut. Am. Argum.; Alcmenes, Sen. Herc. Oet. 1825), = Ἀλκμήνη, daughter of Electryon , wife of Amphitryo , and mother of Hercules by Jupiter , and of his twin-brother Iphiclus by Amphitryo , Plaut. Am. ; Hyg. Fab. 29 al.