Opheltes
Frieze-Dennison Vergil
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Ophelte Proper-name noun: masculine ablative singular, Proper-name noun: masculine vocative singular of Opheltes
- I Son of Lycurgus, king of Thrace, Stat. Th. 5, 538.—
- II A Trojan warrior, father of Euryalus, Verg. A. 9, 201.—
- III One of the Etruscan seamen, Ov. M. 3, 605.—
- IV A Cyzicene, Val. Fl. 3, 198.
(Ὀφέλτης.)
1. A son of Lycurgus, who was killed by a snake at Nemea, as his nurse Hypsipyle had left him alone. (Apollod. 1.9.14; Paus. 2.15.3; comp. Adrastus.)
2. One of the Tyrrhenians who wanted to carry off Dionysus, and were therefore metamorphosed into dolphins. (Hyg. Fab. 134.)
3. The son of Peneleus and father of Damasichthon. king of Thebes. (Paus. 9.5.8.) [L.S]
(Ὀφέλτης). The son of Lycurgus, king of Nemea. Hypsipylé, the Lemnian princess, whom her countrywomen had sold into slavery, was nurse to the infant Opheltes, when the army of Adrastus marched to Nemea, on its way to Thebes. She undertook to guide the new-comers to a spring; and, for that purpose, left the child lying on the grass, where a serpent found and killed it. The Argive leaders slew the serpent and buried the child. Amphiaraüs, the famous soothsayer and warrior, augured ill-luck from this event, and called the child Archemŏrus (“Fate-beginner”), as indicative of the evils that were to befall the chieftains. His other name, Opheltes, was derived, according to the mythologists, from ὄφις, as he died by the bite of a serpent.
- Paus. 2.15.3
- called Archemorus, son of Lycurgus: Apollod. 1.9.13
- child of Lycurgus and Eurydice, nursed by Hypsipyle: Apollod. 3.6.3
- killed by a serpent: Paus. 2.15.2, Apollod. 3.6.4
- called Archemorus: Apollod. 3.6.4
- Nemean games celebrated in his honour: Apollod. 3.6.4
- his grave: Paus. 2.15.3
- Paus. 9.5.16