Mĕnĕlāüs, i, m., = Μενέλαος.
I Son of Atreus, brother of Agamemnon, and husband of Helen, who eloped from him with Paris , Cic. Brut. 13, 50; id. Rep. 5, 9, 14; Auct. Her. 3, 21, 34; Ov. M. 13, 203; id. A. A. 2, 359.—
B Transf., a cuckold .— Jestingly of M. Lucullus, whose wife was seduced by C. Memmius , Cic. Att. 1, 18, 3.—
II Menelaus Marathenus, a Greek rhetorician, from the old Phoenician city of Marathus , Cic. Brut. 26, 100.—
III Menelai portus, a city with a port of the same name on the shore of the Mediterranean, between Cyrene and Egypt , Nep. Ages. 8, 6; also called Menelaita urbs, Edict. Justin. 13, 9, 2.—Hence, adj.: Mĕnĕlāĕus , a, um, of Menelaus , Prop. 2, 15 (3, 7), 14.