MEGISTIAS

MEGISTIAS
MEGISTIAS
vates, patriâ Acarnam, a Melampode originem trahens: inspectis extis, sibi et Graecis, qui erant ad Thermopylas, mortem pariter impendere praedixit, tamen quum a Leonida, ne secum periret, dimitteretur, abscedere noluit, filium tantum unicum una militantem missum fecit. Herodot. l. 6.

Hofmann J. Lexicon universale. 1698.

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