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Meges

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[mee-jeez] / ˈmi dʒiz /

noun

  1. a nephew of Odysseus who commanded the Epeans in the Trojan War.


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Each Ajax, Teucer, Merion gave command, The valiant leader of the Cretan band; And Mars-like Meges: these the chiefs excite, Approach the foe, and meet the coming fight.

From The Iliad by Pope, Alexander

Meges rushed upon him, perceiving it, but Polydamas stooped obliquely, and he missed him; for Apollo did not suffer the son of Panthous to be subdued among the foremost warriors.

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

Lo, faithful Nestor thy command obeys; The care is next our other chiefs to raise: Ulysses, Diomed, we chiefly need; Meges for strength, Oileus famed for speed.

From The Iliad by Pope, Alexander

Meges Pedaeus slew, Antenor's son, A bastard born, but by Theano rear'd With tender care, and nurtur'd as her son, With her own children, for her husband's sake.

From The Iliad by Derby, Edward George Geoffrey Smith Stanley, Earl of

He said, and call'd on noble Nestor's sons, On Meges, Phyleus' son, Meriones, Thoas, and Lycomedes, Creon's son, And Melanippus; they together sought The mighty monarch Agamemnon's tent.

From The Iliad by Derby, Edward George Geoffrey Smith Stanley, Earl of

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