Antiphus

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[an-tuh-fuhs] / ˈæn tə fəs /

noun

Classical Mythology.

1. (in theIliad ) a Trojan ally, the son of Talaemenes and a nymph.

2. a Greek commander who sailed from Troy with Odysseus and was devoured by Polyphemus.

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Antiphus

Of those who round Maeonia's realms reside, Or whom the vales in shades of Tmolus hide, Mestles and Antiphus the charge partake, Born on the banks of Gyges' silent lake.

From The Iliad by Pope, Alexander

From Lydia came Pylaemenes' two sons, Born of the lake Gygeian; Antiphus, And Mesthles; these Maeonia's forces led, Who dwelt around the foot of Tmolus' hill.

From The Iliad by Derby, Edward George Geoffrey Smith Stanley, Earl of

And those that held Nisyrus, Crapathus, and Casus, with Cos, the city of Eurypylus, and the Calydnian islands, these were commanded by Pheidippus and Antiphus, two sons of King Thessalus the son of Hercules.

From The Iliad by Homer

Then the old chieftain Ægyptus began the debate; he was bent double with age, and one of his sons, Antiphus, had followed Odysseus to Troy, while another, Eurynomus, was among the suitors of Penelope.

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

But those who possessed Nisyrus, and Crapathus, and Casus, and Cos, the city of Eurypylus, and the Calydnæ isles, Phidippus and Antiphus, both sons of the Thessalian king, the son of Hercules, commanded.

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