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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

Spencer, George M., promoted, 251; at Chattanooga, 329; Corinth, 8; Etowah Bridge, 230, 254; Huntsville, 218; Kingston, 226, 229; Medon Station, 12; Nashville, 274; Vicksburg, 68, 89, 93; portrait, 128.

From An Artilleryman's Diary by Jones, Jenkins Lloyd

"You bade me once to remember Medon," Syphax bellowed.

From The Golden Hope A Story of the Time of King Alexander the Great by Fuller, Robert H.

But going among them, he animated each with his words,--Mesthles, Glaucus, Medon, and Thersilochus, Asteropæus, Disenor, and Hippothoüs, Phorcys, Chromius, and Ennomus the augur.

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

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