Medon

[meed-n]

noun

1. (in theOdyssey ) a herald who warned Penelope that her suitors were conspiring against Telemachus.

Example Sentences

“The fines could escalate, eventually leading to the platform’s suspension. But this is always the last measure, as it harms other users in Brazil,” said Filipe Medon, a data privacy lawyer and professor at the Getulio Vargas Foundation.

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Now Medon, the alert and cool man, answered: “I wish that were the worst of it, my Lady, but they intend something more terrible— may Zeus forfend and spare us! They plan to drive the keen bronze through Telemakhos when he comes home. He sailed away, you know, to hallowed Pylos and old Lakedaimon for news about his father.”

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Then Medon, the perceptive man, replied: “A god moved him—who knows?—or his own heart sent him to learn, at Pylos, if his father roams the wide world still, or what befell him.”

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Now this came to the ears of prudent Medon under the chair where he had gone to earth, pulling a new-flayed bull’s hide over him.

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She knew now they plotted her child’s death in her own hall, for once more Medon, who had heard them, told her.

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