Elpenor

[el-pee-nawr]

noun

(in the Odyssey) a companion of Odysseus who was killed when he fell off the roof of Circe's palace.

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Examples from the Web for elpenor

And Ulysses granted the boon, and the spirit of Elpenor departed content.
Half a Hundred Hero Tales
Various
This may be seen especially from the speech of Elpenor in Od.
The Heroic Age
H. Munro Chadwick
We have burning and howe even in the case of an obscure oarsman like Elpenor.
Homer and His Age
Andrew Lang
In the morning Elpenor and one other died, and the giant drove his flocks to pasture and closed up the heroes in the cave.
The Adventures of Ulysses the Wanderer
Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger Gull
The companion Elpenor dead, but not yet buried, forms the transition between the Present and Past.
Homer's Odyssey
Denton J. Snider