Laomedon

American  

[ley-om-i-don] / leɪˈɒm ɪˌdɒn /

noun

Classical Mythology.

1. a king of Troy and the father of Priam, for whom the walls of Troy were built by Apollo and Poseidon.

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Laomedon British  

/ leɪˈɒmɪˌdɒn /

noun

1. Greek myth the founder and ruler of Troy, who cheated Apollo and Poseidon of their wage for constructing the city's walls; the father of Priam

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Example Sentences

Laomedon promised, but when Hercules had slain the monster the King refused to pay.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

She was the daughter of King Laomedon, who had cheated Apollo and Poseidon of their wages after at Zeus’s command they had built for the King the walls of Troy.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

Too weak reasons for doing Laomedon such injury!

From The Academic Questions, Treatise De Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of M.T. Cicero, With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero by Yonge, Charles Duke

War is it for your slaughtered oxen and steers cut down, O children of Laomedon, war is it you would declare, and drive the guiltless Harpies from their ancestral kingdom?

From The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

Hercules killed the monster and delivered her, but Laomedon refused to give him the promised reward. l.

From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Berdoe, Edward