Opheltes

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[uh-fel-teez] / əˈfɛl tiz /

noun

Classical Mythology.

1. the son of King Lycurgus of Nemea who was killed in infancy by a serpent and in whose memory the Nemean games were held.

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Opheltes

There is also a mound of earth said to be the tomb of Lycurgus, the father of Opheltes.

From A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.) by Bryant, Jacob

A history similar to that of Opheltes is given of Archemorus; who was said to have been left in a garden by his nurse Hypsipyle, and in her absence slain by a serpent.

From A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.) by Bryant, Jacob

Not thus my sire Opheltes, bred to war, Brought up and taught me, when in evil strait Was Troy, and Argives battered at her gate.

From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Taylor, Edward Fairfax

Opheltes is ruined, and, in words which Greene nearly copied, "Phœmonoe not brooking the cumbersome haunt of so beggerly a guest, with outragious tearms flatly forbad him her house."

From The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare by Jusserand, J. J.

This prodigious narration finished, it is discovered that a serpent sacred to Jupiter has killed Opheltes.

From Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Butler, Harold Edgeworth