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Menelaus
Men·e·la·us
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noun
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a king of Sparta, the husband of Helen and brother of Agamemnon, to whom he appealed for an army against Troy in order to recover Helen from her abductor, Paris.
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Menelaus
(ˌmɛnɪˈleɪəs)
—
n
Greek myth
a king of Sparta and the brother of Agamemnon. He was the husband of Helen, whose abduction led to the Trojan War
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