Diomedes
Americannoun
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a Greek hero in the Trojan War.
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a Thracian king who fed his wild mares on human flesh and was himself fed to them by Hercules.
noun
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a king of Argos, and suitor of Helen, who fought with the Greeks at Troy
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a king of the Bistones in Thrace whose savage horses ate strangers
Example Sentences
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Diomedes holds the baby of a visiting relative of a fellow rebel of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, in the Yari Plains, southern Colombia, Sunday, Sept. 25, 2016.
From US News ● Sep. 26, 2016
However, the cast – Roman Trekel as the poet Diomedes, John Tomlinson as Kreon, and especially Deborah Polaski as Sappho – do their best to bring it all to life.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 19, 2012
This Cressida does not leave her Trojan lover Troilus for a Greek lover, Diomedes; she chooses an unhappy life among the alien Greeks to carry on the vital idea of Troy.
From Time Magazine Archive
For six months, non-partisan Alexander Diomedes had headed an uneasy coalition cabinet of Populists and Liberals.
From Time Magazine Archive
The eighth labor was to get the man-eating mares of King Diomedes of Thrace.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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