Mentes
Americannoun
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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
Something must needs be done speedily," said Mentes, "and I shall tell thee how to thrust them from thy palace gates.
From National Epics by Kate Milner Rabb
I avow me to be Mentes, son of wise Anchialus, and I bear rule among the Taphians, lovers of the oar.
From The Odyssey Done into English prose by Andrew Lang
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 H. L. (Herbert Lord) Havell
Mentes returned on the third day, appointed Lieutenant-Colonel, and, joined by D. Juan Benito Lujan, who commanded one thousand men of Tierradentro and some colored troops from the fort, attempted a sally.
From The History of Cuba, vol. 2 by Willis Fletcher Johnson
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