Medon
Americannoun
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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.”
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
Great Captain Medon wears a chain of gold Which at five hundred crowns is valuèd, For that it was his grandsire's chain of old, When great King Henry Boulogne conquerèd.
From The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3) by A. H. (Arthur Henry) Bullen
“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
Meantime, though sorrowing for his sake, his troops890 Yet wanted not a chief; them Medon ruled, Whom Rhena to the far-famed conqueror bore Oïleus, fruit of their unsanction'd loves.
From The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by William Cowper
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