Apollodorus, Library 3.4
Ino threw Melicertes into a boiling cauldron then carrying it with the dead child she sprang into the deep. And she herself is called Leucothea, and the boy is called Palaemon, such being the names they get from sailors; for they succour storm-tossed mariners.
Melicertes is also put into a cauldron (λέβης), which is also the same word for the tub that Agamemnon was slain in.
Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1125
Ah, ah, see there, see there! Keep the bull from his mate! She has caught him in the robe and gores him with the crafty device of her black horn! He falls in a vessel of water! It is of doom wrought by guile in a murderous bath that I am telling you.
μελάγκερως (melánkeros) means black-horned and resembles Μελικέρτης (Melikertis) and so also Melqart.
Ino threw Melicertes into a boiling cauldron then carrying it with the dead child she sprang into the deep. And she herself is called Leucothea, and the boy is called Palaemon, such being the names they get from sailors; for they succour storm-tossed mariners.
Ἰνὼ δὲ τὸν Μελικέρτην εἰς πεπυρωμένον λέβητα ῥίψασα, εἶτα βαστάσασα μετὰ νεκροῦ τοῦ παιδὸς ἥλατο κατὰ βυθοῦ. καὶ Λευκοθέα μὲν αὐτὴν καλεῖται, Παλαίμων δὲ ὁ παῖς, οὕτως ὀνομασθέντες ὑπὸ τῶν πλεόντων; τοῖς χειμαζομένοις γὰρ βοηθοῦσιν
Melicertes is also put into a cauldron (λέβης), which is also the same word for the tub that Agamemnon was slain in.
Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1125
Ah, ah, see there, see there! Keep the bull from his mate! She has caught him in the robe and gores him with the crafty device of her black horn! He falls in a vessel of water! It is of doom wrought by guile in a murderous bath that I am telling you.
ἆ ἆ, ἰδοὺ ἰδού: ἄπεχε τῆς βοὸς
τὸν ταῦρον: ἐν πέπλοισι
μελαγκέρῳ λαβοῦσα μηχανήματι
τύπτει: πίτνει δ᾽ ἐν ἐνύδρῳ τεύχει.
δολοφόνου λέβητος τύχαν σοι λέγω.
τὸν ταῦρον: ἐν πέπλοισι
μελαγκέρῳ λαβοῦσα μηχανήματι
τύπτει: πίτνει δ᾽ ἐν ἐνύδρῳ τεύχει.
δολοφόνου λέβητος τύχαν σοι λέγω.
μελάγκερως (melánkeros) means black-horned and resembles Μελικέρτης (Melikertis) and so also Melqart.
Statistics: Posted by Ethan — Wed Apr 10, 2024 8:09 pm