Latin

Proper noun

Aethalidēs m ‎(accusative Aethalidēn); first declension

1. A male given name
   • AD 70–79?, Gaius Valerius Flaccus (author), Nicolaas Heinsius the Elder and Pieter Burman the Elder (editors), Argonautica, Utrecht: Willem van de Water (second edition, 1702), book I, lines 436–440 (pages 12–13):

     Hinc numeroſa phalanx, proles Cyllenia: certus // Aethalides ſubitas nervo redeunte ſagittas // Cogere: tu medios gladio bonus ire per hoſtes, // Euryte: nec patrio Minyis ignobilis uſu, // Nuntia verba ducis populis qui reddit Echion.

   • late AD 2nd C., Aulus Gellius (author), Martin Hertz and Carl Hosius (editors), Noctium Atticarum libri XX, Leipzig: B.G. Teubner (revised edition, 1903), volume I, book iv, chapter xi, § 14 (page 198, lines 4–9):

     P y t h a g o r a m  vero ipsum sicuti celebre est Euphorbum primo fuisse dictasse, ita haec remotiora sunt his, quae  C l e a r c h u s  (FHG II 317) et  D i c a e a r c h u s  (FHG II 244) memoriae tradiderunt, fuisse eum postea Pyrrum, deinde Aethaliden, deinde feminam pulcra facie meretricem, cui nomen fuerat Alco.

Declension

First declension, masculine Greek type with nominative singular in -ēs.

Descendants

• Spanish: Etálida

References

• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “Æthălĭdēs”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette, page 82/2.