Mŏlorchus

I. a poor vine-dresser near Nemea, who hospitably entertained Hercules when about to slay the lion of that place, Stat. S. 3, 1, 29; 4, 6, 51; id. Th. 4, 160; Mart. 4, 64, 30.—Poet.: Alpheum linquens lucosque Molorchi, Verg. G. 3, 19.—Hence, Mŏlor-chaeus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Molorchus (poet.), Tib. 4, 1, 13.