(), a patronymic from Labdacus, and frequently
used not only to designate his children, but his descendants in general, and is therefore
applied not only to Oedipus, his son, but to Polyneices, Eteocles, and Antigone. The family of
the Labdacidae is particularly famous in ancient story, on account of the misfortunes of all
that belonged to it. (Soph. Antig. 560;