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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Example Sentences

But Mesthles and Antiphus led the Mæonians, both sons of Talæmeneus, whom the lake Gygæa bore; these led the Mæonians, born beneath Mount Tmolus.

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

Aegyptus cannot of course know of the fate Antiphus had met with, for there had as yet been no news of or from Ulysses.

From The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Butler, Samuel

The next pair, Papilio Theseus, and P. Antiphus, have been united as one species both by De Haan and in the British Museum Catalogues.

From Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays by Wallace, Alfred Russel

But at him Antiphus, of the varied corslet, the son of Priam, took aim through the crowd with a sharp spear.

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

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