The banquet of his own children, which Atreus offered to Thyestes.—See [Introductory Remarks].
Apollo.
πόρθμευμ ἀχέων, whence Acheron, so familiar to English ears; as in the same way Cocytus, from κωκυω, to avail, and the other infernal streams, with a like appropriateness.
The house of Atreus, so called from Pleisthenes, one of the ancestry of Agamemnon.