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
Much did I wonder to see him, and I asked, 'How comest thou hither, Elpenor, to the land of darkness? and how have thy feet outstripped my ship?'
From The Story of the Odyssey by Homer
O, say, what angry power Elpenor led To glide in shades, and wander with the dead?
From Modern Painters. Vol. III (of V) Containing Part IV. Of Many Things by Ruskin, John
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 Pope, Alexander
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 Snider, Denton Jaques
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