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Eteoclus

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[ih-tee-uh-kluhs] / ɪˈti ə kləs /

noun

Classical Mythology.
  1. one of the Seven against Thebes.


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Eteoclus is third—   To him it fell, what time the third lot sprang   O'er the inverted helmet's brazen rim,   To dash his stormers on Neistae gate.

From Suppliant Maidens and Other Plays by Morshead, E. D. A. (Edmund Doidge Anderson)

Eteoclus the son of the river Cephisus first sacrificed to them, as Hesiod says.

From Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Evelyn-White, Hugh G. (Hugh Gerard)

Against the gate of Neis the mighty Eteoclus is wheeling his foaming steeds, bearing a buckler blazoned with a man in armor treading the steps of a ladder to his foeman's tower.

From Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound and the Seven Against Thebes by Buckley, Theodore Alois

He that is set against the gate of Ne�s is called Eteoclus by name.

From Stories from the Greek Tragedians by Church, Alfred John

Megareus, the offspring of Creon, is the valiant warrior who will either pay the debt of his nurture to his land or will decorate his father's house with the spoils of the conquered Eteoclus.

From Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound and the Seven Against Thebes by Buckley, Theodore Alois