Salmóneus, trifyllabum, A king of Clis, which taking foolithly vpon him to haue diuine honoucs done dnro him, and would seeme to cast lightninges like vnto Iupiter, beeing ouerthrowue with lightning, was cast into hell.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
Salmōneus (trisyl.), ĕos, m., = *salmwneu/s,a son of Æolus, brother of Sisyphus, who imitated lightning with burning torches, and was on that account hurled into Tartarus by a thunderbolt from Jupiter, Hyg. Fab. 60; 61; 250; Verg. A. 6, 585 Serv.; Claud. in Rufin. 2, 514; Epigr. ap. Sphaer. Archim. 18.—Hence, Salmōnis, ĭdis, f., = *salmwni/s,Tyro, a daughter of Salmoneus, mother of Neleus and Pelias by Neptune, who assumed the form of Enipeus, Prop. 3, 19 (4, 18), 13; 1, 13, 21; Ov. Am. 3, 6, 43; Hyg. Fab. 157.