Astyages

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

Astyăges, is, m., = Ἀστυάγης.

I King of Media , father of Mandane , and grandfather of Cyrus , by whom he was deprived of his throne , Just. 1, 4 sq.—

II An enemy of Perseus , changed by him to stone by means of Medusa's head , Ov. M. 5, 203.