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Mentes

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[men-teez] / ˈmɛn tiz /

noun

  1. (in theOdyssey ) a captain of the Taphians. Athena assumed his form when she urged Telemachus to search for Odysseus.


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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

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.

So Ath�n� spoke, and flashed down from Olympus to Ithaca, where she took the shape of a mortal man, Mentes, a chief of the Taphians.

From Tales of Troy and Greece by Lang, Andrew

The only foreign earl was his nephew Ralph of Mentes, the son of his sister Godgifu. 

From William the Conqueror by Freeman, Edward Augustus

She has taken the form of Mentes, the King of a neighboring tribe; she is in disguise as she usually is when she appears on earth.

From Homer's Odyssey A Commentary by Snider, Denton Jaques