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Menelaus

also: Menelaus, Menelaum

The Spartan king of Greek myth whose wife Helen was carried off by Paris, igniting the Trojan War. Cicero casts him at Att. 1.18.3 as the cuckolded husband, a cipher for M. Lucullus whose wife Memmius seduced.

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Mentioned in 3 works (4 mentions)

Ad Atticum 1.18 letter · 1 mention
Brutus rhet · 2 mentions
Orator: To Marcus Brutus rhet · 1 mention

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