Aeacus

American  

[ee-uh-kuhs] / ˈi ə kəs /

noun

Classical Mythology.

1. a judge in Hades, a son of Zeus and grandfather of Achilles.

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Example Sentences

One wonders with what gentle and humane words Minos and Aeacus and Rhadamanthus will speak to Mr. Flexner when he comes to judgment in that long line of those who, having done irreparable harm in this world, present as their only excuse the fact that they were sincere in their good intentions.

From Project Gutenberg

In the famed, spirited, but excessively proper translation of British Classicist Gilbert Murray, Aeacus. judge of the dead, mistakes the wine god Dionysus for Heracles, who has stolen Cerberus, the watchdog of Hades: Thou rash, impure and most abandoned man, Foul, inly foul, yea foulest upon earth, Who harried our dog, Cerberus, choked him dumb .

From Time Magazine Archive

And that war-captive dame, Andromache, In the Molossian land must find a home In lawful wedlock joined to Helenus, With that child who alone is left alive Of AEacus' line.

From Project Gutenberg

In Aegina, Hypereides and the others had been taken from the shrine of Aeacus.

From Project Gutenberg

Sadly and mournfully they laid them on the table, under the stern, the inflexible, the relentless gaze of the three inexorable custodians, who, to David's mind, seemed the impersonations of Minos, Aeacus, and Rhadamanthus.

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