Ĕtĕōclēs
is and ĕos, m.
I.
son of Oedipus and Jocasta, brother of Polynices; he was the cause of the Theban war, described by the Roman poet Statius in the Thebais, Cic. Off. 3, 21, 82; Hyg. Fab. 76; gen. Eteoclis, Stat. Th. 3, 214: Eteocleos, id. ib. 12, 421; acc. Eteoclea, id. ib. 7, 688.— Hence,
II.
ĕtĕōclēus, a, um, adj., of Eteocles: contentiones, App. M. 10, p. 245, 30.