Agamemnon, Sonne of Atreus king of Mycene, in the preparation of the Greekes against the Troyans, for his wifedom & magnanimitie was by the consent of all the Greekes chosen to be their generall Capitaine. And according to their expectation, he most nobly gouerned himselfe, and that most puissant armie, during the siege of Troye by the space of tenne yeares. But being returned to his owne realme, and hauing with him Cassandra, daughter to Priamus king of Troy: his wife Clitemnestra, conspiring with Aegistus, with whom she had liued in aduoutrie, caused hir saide noble husbande to put on a garment, which had no issue out for his heade: and while he was struggling therewith, Aegistus strake him through with his sworde, and so slue him. Thus that noble Prince was shamefully murdeted. He was before the incarnation about 1194. yeares.* Agamemnonis hostia, The Sacrisice of Agamemnon. A prouerbe applied to them that be hardly persuaded to a thing, or else forced by violence.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
Ăgămemnon, ŏnis, m. (nom. Agamemno, Enn. ap. Cic. Att. 13, 47; Cic. Tusc. 4, 8, 17; Stat. Achill. 1, 553), = *)agame/mnwn, king of Mycenœ, son of Atreus and of Aërope, brother of Menelaüs, husband of Clytœmnestra, father of Orestes, Iphigenia, and Electra, commander-in-chief of the Grecian forces before Troy, and murdered by his wife, with the aid of Ægisthus, her paramour.—Poet., for his time: vixēre fortes ante Agamemnona Multi, Hor. C. 4, 9, 2528.—Hence, 1. Ăgămemnŏnĭdēs, ae, patr. m., = *)agamemnoni/dhs, a male descendant of Agamemnon; his son Orestes: par Agamemnonidae crimen, i. e.
the matricide of Orestes
, Juv. 8, 215.—2. Ăgămem-nŏnĭus, a, um, adj., = *)agamemno/nios, of or pertaining to Agamemnon (poet.): phalanges, i. e.
the Grecian troops before Troy
,
commanded by Agamemnon
, Verg. A. 6, 489: Mycenae,
ruled by Agamemnon
, id. ib. 6, 838: Orestes,
son of Agamemnon
, id. ib. 4, 471: puella, daughter of Agamemnon, i. e. Iphigenia, Prop. 5, 1, 111.