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Origin of the name ORESTES.
Etymology of the name ORESTES.
Meaning of the baby name ORESTES.
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ORESTES. The
Latin form of Greek Orestis
(q.v.). The etymology of the name is not certain, but it may be
related to Horus
(the sun), and especially Gnostic Horos
(Ὡρος), "the Limiter." The name may
signify one who is heated and distant.
Orestes (3
syl.), son of Agamemnon, betrothed to Hermione daughter of Menelaos king
of Sparta. At the downfall of Troy, Menelaos promised Hermione in
marriage to Pyrrhos king of Epiros, but Pyrrhos fell in love with
Andromache the widow of Hector, and his captive. An embassy, led
by Orestes, was sent to Epiros, to demand that the son of Andromache
should be put to death, lest as he grew up he might seek to avenge his
father's death. Pyrrhos refused to comply. In this embassage,
Orestes met Hermione again, and found her pride and jealousy roused to
fury by the slight offered her. She goaded Orestes to avenge her
insults, and the ambassadors fell on Pyrrhos and murdered him.
Hermione, when she saw the dead body of the king borne along, stabbed
herself, and Orestes went raving mad.—Philips: The Distressed
Mother (1712) (The Reader's Handbook of Famous Names in Fiction,
&c., Brewer, 1910)
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