Thyestes
noun
the brother of Atreus who unknowingly ate the flesh of his own sons when served to him by Atreus.
Thyestean
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a word derived from
Thyestes.
Example Sentences
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The Thyestean feast no less disdains The vulgar vehicle of comic strains.
From The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry by John Conington
At that tasted Fruit The Sun, as from Thyestean Banquet, turn'd His course intended; else how had the World Inhabited, though sinless, more then now, 690 Avoided pinching cold and scorching heate?
From The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton
This is an allusion to the charges of Thyestean banquets and other immoralities, which the early apologists constantly rebut.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" by Various
The object of Athenagoras was to plead for toleration; and consequently he employed himself in vindicating the Christians from various charges, such as incest, Thyestean banquets; and retaliated the charges on the heathen.
From History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion by Adam Storey Farrar
Celsus does not indeed repeat the Thyestean charges so frequently brought against Christians by their calumniators, but he says the Christian teachers who are mainly weavers and cobblers have no power over men of education.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various
