Medon
Americannoun
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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
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 and the sacred bard whom sleep Had lately left, arriving from the house Of Laertiades, approach’d; amid The throng they stood; all wonder’d seeing them, And Medon, prudent senior, thus began.
From The Odyssey of Homer by William Cowper
"Alas! alas! ah me!" cried the half-sobbing freedman, "my friend, my more than friend, my countryman, my kinsman, Medon!"
From The Roman Traitor, Vol. 1 by Henry William Herbert
Alas! lady," answered Medon, "would that this were the worst!
From Stories from the Odyssey by H. L. (Herbert Lord) Havell
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