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 this my guest hath known in other days My father, and he came from Taphos, son 530 Of brave Anchialus, Mentes by name, And Chief of the sea-practis’d Taphian race.
From The Odyssey of Homer by Cowper, William
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 Lang, Andrew
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
Behold in me Mentes, the offspring of a Chief renown’d In war, Anchialus; and I rule, myself, An island race, the Taphians oar-expert.
From The Odyssey of Homer by Cowper, William
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