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

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

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

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

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