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
The evil tidings were brought by Medon, a servant in the house of Odysseus, who had overheard the suitors plotting together, while he stood concealed behind a buttress of the courtyard fence.
From Stories from the Odyssey by H. L. (Herbert Lord) Havell
Having delivered his message, Medon left the chamber, and the door was shut.
From Stories from the Odyssey by H. L. (Herbert Lord) Havell
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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