Medon

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[meed-n] / ˈmid n /

noun

1. (in theOdyssey ) a herald who warned Penelope that her suitors were conspiring against Telemachus.

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Medon

Now this came to the ears of prudent Medon under the chair where he had gone to earth, pulling a new-flayed bull’s hide over him.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

Then Medon, the perceptive man, replied: “A god moved him—who knows?—or his own heart sent him to learn, at Pylos, if his father roams the wide world still, or what befell him.”

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

Then he thought of the trusty Medon, who had been kind to him when a child, and remained loyal to the last to him and Penelope.

From Stories from the Odyssey by H. L. (Herbert Lord) Havell

“Up leap'd the men, by sudden madness mov'd; “Or terror only: Medon first appear'd “Blackening to grow, with shooting fins; his form “Flatten'd; and in a curve was bent his spine.

From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by J. J. Howard

"Because I intend to make him remember Medon," the freebooter answered savagely.

From The Golden Hope A Story of the Time of King Alexander the Great by Robert H. Fuller

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