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
The manner of his descent, and the apparition of the shades: his conversation with Elpenor, and with Tiresias, who informs him in a prophetic manner of his fortunes to come.
From The Odyssey by Alexander Pope
Unburied men change into this sort of vampire, just as Elpenor, in the Odyssey, threatens, if unburied, to become mischievous.
From Custom and Myth by Andrew Lang
A tomb along the watery margin raise, The tomb with manly arms and trophies grace, To show posterity Elpenor was.
From The Odyssey by Alexander Pope
The natives say that Circe dwelt there, and they show the grave of Elpenor, from which grow myrtles such as wreaths are made of, whereas the other myrtle-trees are tall.”
From The Golden Bough by Sir James George Frazer
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