Agelaus
Americannoun
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the herdsman of Priam who raised Paris.
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a son of Hercules and Omphale.
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(in theIliad ) a son of Phradmon who was killed by Diomedes.
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(in theOdyssey ) one of the suitors of Penelope.
Example Sentences
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His was the hand that first a crested chief, The son of Phradmon, Agelaus, struck.
From The Iliad by Edward George Geoffrey Smith Stanley, Earl of Derby
Damastor's son, bold Agelaus, leads, The guilty war, Eurynomus succeeds; With these, Pisander, great Polyctor's son, Sage Polybus, and stern Amphimedon, With Demoptolemus: these six survive: The best of all the shafts had left alive.
From The Odyssey by Alexander Pope
One of the more reasonable Suitors, Agelaus, makes a speech, which commends Telemachus but insists upon his ordering his mother "to marry the man who is best and who will give most presents."
From Homer's Odyssey A Commentary by Denton Jaques Snider
And late and at last spake among them Agelaus, son of Damastor: 'Friends, when a righteous word has been spoken, none surely would rebuke another with hard speech and be angry.
From The Odyssey Done into English prose by Andrew Lang
Then Agelaus spake among them, and made known his word to all: 'Friends, now at last will this man hold his unconquerable hands.
From The Odyssey Done into English prose by Andrew Lang
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