Menœtius

A form of Menoetius — A Titan, son of Iapetus and Clymene, he had three brothers: Atlas, Prometheus and Epimetheus. He joined Cronus and the Titans in their unsuccessful war against the Olympian gods. Zeus killed him with a thunderbolt and sent him down to Tartarus.

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Meanings

proper noun
  1. archaicArchaic spelling of Menoetius.

    Iapetus.—A Titan, married to Clymene, according to Hesiod; to Asia, according to Apollodorus. He was the father of Atlas, Menœtius, Prometheus, and Epimetheus; and was looked on by the Greeks as the ancestor of the human race.

    1899, James A. Fitz Simon, Vincent Alphonso Fitz Simon, The Gods of Old; and the story that they tell., book seventh, chapter I, page #339
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