Idomeneus

British  

/ aɪˈdɒmɪˌnjuːs /

noun

1. Greek myth a king of Crete who fought on the Greek side in the Trojan War

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Example Sentences

My master he had seen in Krete, he said, lodged with Idomeneus, while the long ships, leaky from gales, were laid up for repairs.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

Idomeneus brought his company back to Krete; the sea took not a man from him, of all who lived through the long war.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

Everyone pressed me, pressed King Idomeneus to take command of ships for Ilion.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

Agamemnon had a hundred ships, Diomede had eighty, Nestor had ninety, the Cretans with Idomeneus, had eighty, Menelaus had sixty; but Aias and Ulysses, who lived in small islands, had only twelve ships apiece.

From Tales of Troy and Greece by Lang, Andrew

Fame went that Duke Idomeneus, thrust from his fathers' land, Had gone his ways, and desert now was all the Cretan strand, That left all void of foes to us those habitations lie.

From The Æneids of Virgil Done into English Verse by Morris, William