LATIN DICTIONARYLexicon Latīnum
proper noun

Mĕlĭcerta

Meaning

  1. son of Ino and the Theban king Athamas. His mother, pursued by her husband in his madness, threw herself into the sea with Melicerta, who became a seagod, called by the Greeks

Mĕlĭcerta and Mĕlĭcertes, ae, m., = Μελικέρτης,
I. son of Ino and the Theban king Athamas. His mother, pursued by her husband in his madness, threw herself into the sea with Melicerta, who became a seagod, called by the Greeks Palaemon, and by the Romans Portunus, Ov. M. 4, 522; cf. Verg. G. 1, 437; Ov. F. 6, 485 sq.; Pers. 5, 103.

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What does Mĕlĭcerta mean in Latin?
Mĕlĭcerta, a proper noun, means “son of Ino and the Theban king Athamas. His mother, pursued by her husband in his madness, threw herself into the sea with Melicerta, who became a seagod, called by the Greeks”.