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

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

"You may be so, my Sergius, for, of a truth, until Chærea swore as he did touching Medon, I was myself deceived."

From The Roman Traitor, Vol. 1 by Herbert, Henry William

Spencer, George M., promoted, 251; at Chattanooga, 329; Corinth, 8; Etowah Bridge, 230, 254; Huntsville, 218; Kingston, 226, 229; Medon Station, 12; Nashville, 274; Vicksburg, 68, 89, 93; portrait, 128.

From An Artilleryman's Diary by Jones, Jenkins Lloyd

While they were debating, Medon and Phemius appeared on the scene, and described the manner in which the wooers had met their end.

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