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mares of Diomedes

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[mairz] / mɛərz /

plural noun

Classical Mythology.

  1. wild mares owned by Diomedes, a Thracian king, who fed them on human flesh: captured by Hercules in fulfillment of one of his labors.

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The car was pulling like the mares of Diomedes.

From Jonah and Co. by Yates, Dornford

The Mares of Diomedes.—The eighth labour of Heracles was to bring to Eurystheus the mares of Diomedes, a son of Ares, and king of the Bistonians, a warlike Thracian tribe.

From Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by Berens, E.M.

The taking of the mares of Diomedes was the eighth labor.

From Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12) by Various

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