Definitions

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  • proper noun A Titan, son of Iapetus and Clymene, he had three brothers- Atlas, Prometheus and Epimetheus. He joined Cronus and the Titans in their unsuccessful war against the Olympian gods. Zeus killed him with a thunderbolt and sent him down to Tartarus.
  • proper noun One of Hades' shepherds on Erythea. He told Geryon when Heracles stole Geryon's herd.
  • proper noun Father of Patroclus and son of Actor. (Iliad, XI, 765)

Etymologies

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The name "Menoetius" literally means "defying fate" or "ruined strength"

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Examples

  • The Titans later gave birth to other Titans, notably the children of Hyperion (Helios, Eos, and Selene), the daughters of Coeus (Leto and Asteria), and the sons of Iapetus — Prometheus, Epimetheus, Atlas, and Menoetius; all of these descendants in the second generation are also known as "Titans".

    Louis Leterrier Explains How He Took on Clash of the Titans « FirstShowing.net 2008

  • After a neat sequence details the Champions efforts to prevail against this dire duo, the Widow manages to snare the Huntsman, Menoetius and a nearby utility pole in her web line which handily conducts all of the melting ice that's conveniently present due to Bobby "Iceman" Drake, and the two villains are temporarily zapped.

    Retro-View: The Champions #2 (Marvel Comics) Chuck Wells 2010

  • A single bolt of eldritch fire knocks Hercules and Venus into paralytic unconsciousness, and that leaves Angel, Iceman, Black Widow and Ghost Rider to tackle the Huntsman, but wait; it seems that this guy has some powerful back-up in the towering form of Menoetius, a Titan of Myth whose flesh has been transformed into living energy.

    Retro-View: The Champions #2 (Marvel Comics) Chuck Wells 2010

  • Moreover Actor sent his son Menoetius from Opus that he might accompany the chiefs.

    The Argonautica 2008

  • But Menoetius was outrageous, and far-seeing Zeus struck him with a lurid thunderbolt and sent him down to Erebus because of his mad presumption and exceeding pride.

    Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

  • And she bare him a stout-hearted son, Atlas: also she bare very glorious Menoetius and clever Prometheus, full of various wiles, and scatter-brained Epimetheus who from the first was a mischief to men who eat bread; for it was he who first took of Zeus the woman, the maiden whom he had formed.

    Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

  • "Woe is me that I am fated to have Sarpedon, dearest of men to me, subdued at the hands of Patroclus the son of Menoetius."

    The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett 2006

  • Thetis, remaining in the hands of Hector, then the base spirits of that day might have reproached the son of Menoetius with having cast away his arms.

    Laws 2006

  • Certainly the strenuous son of Menoetius is quite dead, — for the word “quite” is pleonastic after the Attic fashion.

    Essays and Miscellanies 2004

  • But some say she was the daughter of Hercules, by Myrto, the daughter of Menoetius, and sister of Patroclus, and, dying a virgin, was worshipped by the Boeotians and Locrians.

    The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

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