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
Unburied men change into this sort of vampire, just as Elpenor, in the Odyssey, threatens, if unburied, to become mischievous.
From Custom and Myth New Edition by Lang, Andrew
First of all came the soul of my comrade Elpenor.
From The Story of 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 Pope, Alexander
Elpenor, how hast thou come beneath the darkness and the shadow?
From The Odyssey Done into English prose by Lang, Andrew
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