Meleager (n.)
[pron: melee'ager] son of Althaea, his life-span determined by an unburnt magic log; he murdered his uncles in a quarrel over the killing of a boar ravaging the fields in Calydon; in her rage Althaea burnt Meleager’s log on a fire, and he died
TNK III.v.18[Schoolmaster to all, of the Duke] do you / As once did Meleager and the boar / Break comely out before him
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