Molorchus

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

Mŏlorchus, i, m.,

I a poor vine-dresser near Nemea, who hospitably entertained Hercules when about to slay the lion of that place , Stat. S. 3, 1, 29; 4, 6, 51; id. Th. 4, 160; Mart. 4, 64, 30.—Poet.: Alpheum linquens lucosque Molorchi, i. e. the Nemean Forest , Verg. G. 3, 19.

II —Hence, Mŏlorchaeus , a, um, adj., of or belonging to Molorchus (poet.), Tib. 4, 1, 13.

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