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Noun: Aegisthus  i'jis-thus
  1. (Greek mythology) the seducer of Clytemnestra and murderer of Agamemnon who usurped the throne of Mycenae until Agamemnon's son Orestes returned home and killed him

Type of: mythical being

Encyclopedia: Aegisthus