Polydorus
Americannoun
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One morning, a well-to-do couple named Lawrence and Pauline Treherne unexpectedly show up at the Polydorus, practically begging for Susan’s help.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 10, 2020
He was supposed to play a frightened Polydorus.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some say that Lykurgus made six thousand lots, and that Polydorus added three thousand afterwards; others that he added half the nine thousand, and that only half was allotted by Lykurgus.
From Plutarch's Lives, Volume I by Stewart, Aubrey
For even now the Trojans being shut up in the city, I cannot see my two sons, Lycaon and Polydorus, whom Laothoë bore to me, queen among women.
From The Iliad of Homer (1873) by Buckley, Theodore Alois
In no less than three of my polymorphic species of Papilio, one of the female forms mimics the Polydorus group, which, like the Æneas group in America, seems to have some special protection.
From Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1 by Marchant, James
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