Melanippus

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[mel-uh-nip-uhs] / ˌmɛl əˈnɪp əs /

Or Melanippos

noun

Classical Mythology.

1. a Theban who killed Tydeus in the battle of the Seven against Thebes and who was, in turn, slain by Amphiaraus.

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Example Sentences

However, when Theseus called to her, pledging himself to take care of her and do her no hurt, she came out, and afterwards bore Theseus a son, named Melanippus.

From Plutarch's Lives, Volume I by Stewart, Aubrey

And from the sown heroes whom Mars spared is Melanippus sprung a scion, and he is thoroughly a native.

From Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound and the Seven Against Thebes by Buckley, Theodore Alois

Why, Melanippus, are we thus remiss? do you take no note of the death of your kinsman, and do you not see how they are trying to take Dolops's armour?

From The Iliad by Homer

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

He led on as he spoke, and the hero Melanippus followed after.

From The Iliad by Homer