Medon

American  

[meed-n] / ˈmid n /

noun

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

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Example Sentences

“The fines could escalate, eventually leading to the platform’s suspension. But this is always the last measure, as it harms other users in Brazil,” said Filipe Medon, a data privacy lawyer and professor at the Getulio Vargas Foundation.

From Seattle Times

The two men stood before the curious crowd, and Medon said: “Now hear me, men of Ithaka. When these hard deeds were done by Lord Odysseus the immortal gods were not far off. I saw with my own eyes someone divine who fought beside him, in the shape and dress of Mentor; it was a god who shone before Odysseus, a god who swept the suitors down the hall dying in droves.”

From Literature

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 Literature

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 Literature

But when the dinner hour drew on, and beasts were being driven from the fields to slaughter— as beasts were, every day—Medon spoke out: Medon, the crier, whom the suitors liked; he took his meat beside them.

From Literature