Iocasta

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

Ĭŏcasta (quadrisyl.), ae, and Ĭŏcastē, ēs, f., = Ἰοκάστη,

the wife of Lāïus , and mother of Oedipus , whom she married unknowingly , and had by him Eteocles and Polynices. —Form Iocasta, Stat. Th. 1, 681; Hyg. Fab. 66.—Form Iocaste, Hyg. Fab. 67; 242.