Ŏrestes, is and ae, m., = Ὀρέστης,
I the son of Agamemnon and Clytaemnestra , who avenged his father's death by slaying his mother , and , in company with his faithful friend Pylades and his sister Iphigenia , priestess of Diana in the Tauric Chersonese , carried away the image of Diana to Italy , near Aricia , Plaut. Capt. 3, 4, 30: Agamemnonius Orestes, Verg. A. 4, 471: dico vicisse Oresten, Enn. ap. Non. 306, 28 (Trag. v. 191 Vahl.): cum Pylades Orestem se esse diceret, Cic. Lael. 7, 24: clamantem nomen Orestis, Ov. H. 8, 9: quod fuit Argolico juvenis Phoceus Orestae, id. Am. 2, 6, 15 (vulg. Oresti).— Voc. : tristis Oresta, Ov. Tr. 1, 5, 22.—
B Transf., a tragedy of Euripides , founded on the story of Orestes : cum Orestem fabulam doceret Euripides, Cic. Tusc. 4, 29, 63.—Hence,
II Orestē-us , a, um, adj., = Ὀρεστεῖος, of or belonging to Orestes , Orestean : Diana, whose image was carried away by Orestes to Aricia , Ov. M. 15, 489.