Polybus
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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In Oedipus thought that Polybus was his father, the clause that Polybus was his father is a complement of the verb thought.
From Literature
Trouble was, Oedipus didn’t know that Polybus and Merope weren’t his biological parents.
From Time
A messenger arrives from Corinth, where Oedipus was raised by Polybus and his wife who never let on that he was a foundling, to say the aged ruler is "dead and gone, done and dusted" and the people of Corinth want Oedipus as their king.
From Reuters
City and isthmus between Greece proper and the Peloponnesus, 152, 158, 294; Sisyphus, king of, 167, 291; Sciron at, 251; Polybus, king of, 280-282, 286.
From Project Gutenberg
A shepherd in quest of a stray lamb had heard his cries, delivered him from his painful position, and carried him to Polybus, King of Corinth, who, lacking an heir of his own, gladly adopted the little stranger.
From Project Gutenberg
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