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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Example Sentences

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, 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 Cowper, William

"Medon, if thou art still alive, come forth and fear nothing."

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

Nor were they however without a leader, though they longed for their own leader; but Medon, the bastard son of Oïleus, whom Rhina brought forth by city-wasting Oïleus, marshalled them.

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