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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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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

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

“Up leap'd the men, by sudden madness mov'd; “Or terror only: Medon first appear'd “Blackening to grow, with shooting fins; his form “Flatten'd; and in a curve was bent his spine.

From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by J. J. Howard

Medon was purchased by the wise consul, Cicero, and was to have received his freedom at the next Saturnalia.

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

Nor were they however without a leader, though they longed for their own leader; but Medon, the bastard son of Oïleus, whom Rhina brought forth by city-wasting Oïleus, marshalled them.

From The Iliad of Homer (1873) by Theodore Alois Buckley

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