proper noun
Ĭŏcasta
Meaning
- the wife of Lāïus
Ĭŏcasta (quadrisyl.), ae, and Ĭŏcastē, ēs, f., = Ἰοκάστη,
I. the wife of Lāïus, and mother of Œdipus, whom she married unknowingly, and had by him Eteocles and Polynices.—Form Iocasta, Stat. Th. 1, 681; Hyg. Fab. 66.—Form Iocaste, Hyg. Fab. 67; 242.