Amyntor

American  

[am-in-tawr] / ˈæm ɪnˌtɔr /

noun

Classical Mythology.

1. a king of Ormenium who refused to give his daughter Astydamia to Hercules and who was slain by Hercules.

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Example Sentences

Amyntor and Theodora, a long poem in blank verse, appeared in 1747; Britannia, a masque, in 1753, and Elvira, a tragedy, in 1763.

From The Age of Pope (1700-1744) by Dennis, John

Clarke, Samuel.—Some reflections on that part of a book called Amyntor, or the defence of Milton's life, which relates to the writings of the primitive fathers, etc.

From Life of John Milton by Garnett, Richard

As Apollo’s champion Hercules is Daphnephoros, and fights Cycnus and Amyntor to keep open the sacred way from Tempe to Delphi.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various

It Autolycus once brought from Eleon, the city of Amyntor, son of Hormenus, having broken into his large mansion.

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

The domestic wretchedness in which the majority of wives live to-day, is correctly depicted by the bourgeois-minded Gerhard von Amyntor in his "Marginal Notes to the Book of Life."

From Woman under socialism by De Leon, Daniel