Elpenor
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Now when I saw him there I wept for pity and called out to him: ‘How is this, Elpenor, how could you journey to the western gloom swifter afoot than I in the black lugger?’
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
She, however, belongs to the immediate Past, and thus corresponds to the man, Elpenor, in the previous section, though she of course has been buried.
From Homer's Odyssey A Commentary by Denton Jaques Snider
Elpenor asks Ulysses to bury him in the same way.
From Anglo-Saxon Grammar and Exercise Book with Inflections, Syntax, Selections for Reading, and Glossary by C. Alphonso (Charles Alphonso) Smith
We have just had the Present, and in the case of Elpenor, the immediate Past, which is not yet wholly gone.
From Homer's Odyssey A Commentary by Denton Jaques Snider
The first ghost that came was that of my comrade Elpenor, for he had not yet been laid beneath the earth.
From The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Samuel Butler
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