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Mecisteus

Μηκιστεύς

(Μηκιστεύς).

1. A son of Talaus and Lysimache, brother of Adrastus, and father of Euryalus of Thebes. (Hom. Il. 2.566; Apollod. 3.6.3; comp. EURYALUS.)

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.