Merope

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

Mĕrŏpē, ēs, f., = Μερόπη, the mythic name of several persons.

I A daughter of Atlas and Pleione, one of the Pleiades, whose star is more obscure than the rest, because she wedded Sisyphus, a mortal , Ov. F. 4, 175. —

II A daughter of Sol and Clymene, and sister of Phaëthon , Hyg. Fab. 152.—

III The wife of Megareus , Hyg. Fab. 185.