Meges

American  

[mee-jeez] / ˈmi dʒiz /

noun

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

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Example Sentences

Next Meges struck, with keen-edg'd spear, the crown Of Dolops' brass-bound, horsehair-crested helm, Sev'ring the horsehair plume, which, brilliant late With crimson dye, now lay defil'd in dust.

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

Then Meges, rising, with his pointed lance The bushy crest of Dolops' helmet drove Sheer from its base; new-tinged with purple bright650 Entire it fell and mingled with the dust.

From The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by Cowper, William

Forty ships were manned by the Elians, under four different chiefs; the like number under Meges from Dulichium and the Echinades, and under Thoas from Calydon and the other Ætolian towns.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01 by Rudd, John

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

He spoke, and took with him the sons of noble Nestor, and Meges son of Phyleus, and Thoas, and Meriones, and Lykomedes son of Kreiontes, and Melanippos.

From The Iliad by Homer