Mentes
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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She seemed a family friend, the Taphian captain, Mentes, waiting, with a light hand on her spear.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
But even as he spoke Mentes rose from his seat and, gliding like a shadow through the sunlit doorway, disappeared.
From Stories from the Odyssey by Havell, H. L. (Herbert Lord)
Yet shalt thou surely be blest," said Mentes; "thou art not unmarked of the eye of Heaven.
From Stories from the Odyssey by Havell, H. L. (Herbert Lord)
Taking the form of Mentes, Athena met Telemachus and informed him that his father was not yet dead.
From Authors of Greece by Lumb, T. W.
Having induced Jove to end the sufferings of Ulysses, Pallas caused Hermes to be dispatched to Calypso's isle to release the hero, while she herself descended to Ithaca in the guise of Mentes.
From National Epics by Rabb, Kate Milner
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