Menœtius

Full definition of Menœtius

Proper noun

1. Archaic spelling of Menoetius
• 1899, James A. Fitz Simon, Vincent Alphonso Fitz Simon, ''The Gods of Old; and the story that they tell.

• Iapetus.—A Titan, married to Clymene, according to Hesiod; to Asia, according to Apollodorus. He was the father of Atlas, MenÅ“tius, Prometheus, and Epimetheus; and was looked on by the Greeks as the ancestor of the human race.