Antiphus

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[an-tuh-fuhs] / ˈæn tə fəs /

noun

Classical Mythology.

1. (in theIliad ) a Trojan ally, the son of Talaemenes and a nymph.

2. a Greek commander who sailed from Troy with Odysseus and was devoured by Polyphemus.

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Example Sentences

But at him Antiphus, of the varied corslet, the son of Priam, took aim through the crowd with a sharp spear.

From The Iliad of Homer (1873) by Buckley, Theodore Alois

Nisyrus, Casus, Crapathus, and Cos Where reign'd Eurypylus, with all the isles Calydnæ named, under two valiant Chiefs Their troops disposed; Phidippus one, and one, His brother Antiphus, begotten both830 By Thessalus, whom Hercules begat.

From The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by Cowper, William

Of those who round Maeonia's realms reside, Or whom the vales in shades of Tmolus hide, Mestles and Antiphus the charge partake, Born on the banks of Gyges' silent lake.

From The Iliad by Pope, Alexander

But those who possessed Nisyrus, and Crapathus, and Casus, and Cos, the city of Eurypylus, and the Calydnæ isles, Phidippus and Antiphus, both sons of the Thessalian king, the son of Hercules, commanded.

From The Iliad of Homer (1873) by Buckley, Theodore Alois

From Lydia came Pylaemenes' two sons, Born of the lake Gygeian; Antiphus, And Mesthles; these Maeonia's forces led, Who dwelt around the foot of Tmolus' hill.

From The Iliad by Derby, Edward George Geoffrey Smith Stanley, Earl of