CLYTEMNESTRA

CLYTEMNESTRA
CLYTEMNESTRA
Tyndari Spartae Regis et Ledae filia, uxor Agamemnonis, quae belli Troiani tempore, mutuô Aegisthi amore capta, turpissimis cum eo voluptatibus sese implicuit, virumque captâ iam Troiâ, in patriam redeuntem, ab adultero adiuta per insidias interfecit, idem Oresti filio factura, nisieum Electra soror certissimae neci eripuisset, et ad Strophium Regem clam misisset educandum, qui postea adultus Argos rediit; ubi una cum hospitibus Phocensibus (quos Sttophius ad Aegisthum miserat, tamquam Orestis mortem nuntiaturos) ad Clytemnestram intromissus, una cum adultero eam necavit, Vellei. Patecul. l. 1. c. 1. Euseb. in Chron. Sophocl. in Electra. Eurip. in Oreste. Ovid. l. 1. Amor. El. 7. v. 9.
Et vindex in matre patris malus ultor Orestes,
Ausus in arcanas poscere tela Deas.
Propert. l. 3. El. 18. v. 17.
Nam quid Medeae referam, quo tempore matis
Iram natorum caede piavit amor?
Quidve Clytemnestrae, propter quam tota Mycenis
Infamis stuprô stat Pelopaea domus
Horat. l. 1. Serm. Sat. 1. v. 99.
-- -- At hunc liberta securi
Divisit medium fortissima Tyndaridarum.
Iuvenalis, Sat. 6. v. 656.
Mane Clytaemnestram nullus non vicus habebit.
Hoc tantum refert, quod Tyndaris ille bipennem
Insulsam et fatuam dextrâ laevâque tenebat.
Nic. Lloydius.

Hofmann J. Lexicon universale. 1698.

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