Eteocles

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

Ĕtĕōclēs, is and ĕos, m., = Ἐτεοκλῆς,

I son of Oedipus and Jocasta , brother of Polynices; he was the cause of the Theban war, described by the Roman poet Statius in the Thebais, Cic. Off. 3, 21, 82; Hyg. Fab. 76; gen. Eteoclis, Stat. Th. 3, 214: Eteocleos, id. ib. 12, 421; acc. Eteoclea, id. ib. 7, 688.— Hence,

II Ĕtĕōclēus , a, um, adj., of Eteocles : contentiones, Ap. Met. 10, 14, 29.