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Amyntor

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[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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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

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

This work being violently opposed, was speedily followed by "Amyntor," or a defence of Milton's life, containing—1.

From Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers." by Bradlaugh, Charles

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

Gerhard von Amyntor, who is one of the best known of German authors, is also a very diligent writer.

From Methods of Authors by Erichsen, Hugo

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