Medon
Americannoun
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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
Alas! lady," answered Medon, "would that this were the worst!
From Stories from the Odyssey by Havell, H. L. (Herbert Lord)
"Because I intend to make him remember Medon," the freebooter answered savagely.
From The Golden Hope A Story of the Time of King Alexander the Great by Fuller, Robert H.
When he heard that, Medon, who had been huddled in a heap behind a chair, covered with a freshly-flayed ox-hide, flung off his covering, and came running to Telemachus.
From Stories from the Odyssey by Havell, H. L. (Herbert Lord)
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