Laertes

[ ley-ur-teez, -air- ]

/ leɪˈɜr tiz, -ˈɛər- /

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noun Classical Mythology.

the father of Odysseus.

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How to use Laertes in a sentence

The boy was afterwards sold to Laertes, the father of Ulysses, in whose service he put on immortality as the swineherd Eumæus.
Castellinaria|Henry Festing Jones
Irus is moved by the fear of poverty, and Laertes by the shame of it.
The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers|Various
Then the old Sicel woman took Laertes inside and washed him and anointed him with oil.
The Odyssey|Homer
Laertes also and Dolius did the same—warriors by necessity in spite of their grey hair.
The Odyssey|Homer

He said that his family came from Ithaca and that his father was Laertes, son of Arceisius.
The Odyssey|Homer

British Dictionary definitions for Laertes

Laertes

/ (leɪˈɜːtiːz) /

noun

Greek myth the father of Odysseus

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