Agelaus

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[aj-uh-ley-uhs] / ˌædʒ əˈleɪ əs /

noun

Classical Mythology.

1. the herdsman of Priam who raised Paris.

2. a son of Hercules and Omphale.

3. (in theIliad ) a son of Phradmon who was killed by Diomedes.

4. (in theOdyssey ) one of the suitors of Penelope.

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Example Sentences

Then Agelaus spake among them, and made known his word to all: 'Friends, now at last will this man hold his unconquerable hands.

From The Odyssey Done into English prose by Lang, Andrew

Damastor's son, bold Agelaus, leads, The guilty war, Eurynomus succeeds; With these, Pisander, great Polyctor's son, Sage Polybus, and stern Amphimedon, With Demoptolemus: these six survive: The best of all the shafts had left alive.

From The Odyssey by Pope, Alexander

Assæus indeed first, and Autonoüs, and Opites, and Dolops, son of Clytis, and Opheltius, and Agelaus, and Æsymnus, and Orus, and Hipponoüs, persevering in fight.

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

Now one who was called Agelaus stood forward, and directed the wooers to cast spears at Odysseus.

From The Adventures of Odysseus and The Tales of Troy by Pogany, Willy

One of the more reasonable Suitors, Agelaus, makes a speech, which commends Telemachus but insists upon his ordering his mother "to marry the man who is best and who will give most presents."

From Homer's Odyssey A Commentary by Snider, Denton Jaques