Medon

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[meed-n] / ˈmid n /

noun

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

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Example Sentences

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.”

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

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.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

A novel purpose occupied, meantime, Penelope; she purposed to appear Before her suitors, whose design to slay Telemachus she had from Medon learn’d, The herald, for his ear had caught the sound.

From The Odyssey of Homer by Cowper, William

"Alas! alas! ah me!" cried the half-sobbing freedman, "my friend, my more than friend, my countryman, my kinsman, Medon!"

From The Roman Traitor, Vol. 1 by Herbert, Henry William

The last of the three offices was that of the Archon, which most authorities state to have come into existence in the time of Medon.

From The Athenian Constitution by Kenyon, Frederic G. (Frederic George), Sir