Mycene

Mycēnae, ārum, or Mycēna, ae, and Mycēne, ēs, f., = Mukênai, Mukênê, a celebrated city in Argolis, of which Agamemnon was king:

Agamemnoniaeque Mycenae,

Verg. A. 6, 838; Ov. M. 6, 414; 15, 426 al.:

deprensus urbe Mycenae,

Verg. A. 5, 52:

Diti sacrata,

Auct. Priap. 77:

ante Agamemnoniam... Mycenen,

Sil. 1, 27.—

II.

Derivv.

A.

Mycēnaeus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Mycenæ, Mycenæan:

ductor,

i. e. Agamemnon, Verg. A. 11, 266:

teque, Mycenaeo, Phoebas, amata duci,

i. e. Cassandra, beloved by Agamemnon, king of Mycenæ, Ov. Tr. 2, 400:

manus, i. e. Agamemnonis,

id. H. 5, 2:

rates,

the Grecian fleet, under the command of Agamemnon, Prop. 3, 15, 32.—

B.

Mycēnensis, e, adj., of or belonging to Mycenæ, Mycenæan.—In plur.: Mycēnenses, ĭum, m., the inhabitants of Mycenæ, the Mycenæans, Cic. poët. Fin. 2, 6, 18.—

C.

Mycēnis, ĭdis, f., the Mycenæan, i. e. Iphigenia, daughter of Agamemnon:

suppositā fertur mutāsse Mycenida cervā,

Ov. M. 12, 34.