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Boeotus
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Latin
Etymology
From la grc Βοιωτός, related to grc βοώτης herdsman, derived from grc βοῦς cow, cattle.
Pronunciation
Boeōtus
Proper noun
Boeōtus<2>
Boeotus, one of the two sons of Poseidon and Arne (Melanippe, daughter of Aeolus) and father of Ogyges, primeval mythological ruler of Boeotia, and possibly Attica, in prehistoric Greece
Boeotus, son of Itonus and the nymph Melanippe; another possible eponym of Boeotia