Hippomenes
[hi-pom-uh-neez]
- the successful suitor of Atalanta.
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Looking about me, I found a brig called the Hippomenes, bound to Gibraltar, and back.
Ned MyersJames Fenimore Cooper
The people cheered on Hippomenes, eager that such valor should win.
Old Greek Folk Stories Told AnewJosephine Preston Peabody
At that instant Hippomenes tossed ahead one of the golden apples.
Old Greek Folk Stories Told AnewJosephine Preston Peabody
Elsewhere Hippomenes delivers himself of a superexcellent pun.
A Book of BurlesqueWillam Davenport Adams
She stooped to pick it up, and Hippomenes regained the lead.
Greek WomenMitchell Carroll
Hippomenes
- Greek myth the husband, in some traditions, of Atalanta
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