Polydeuces
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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There was no way I was going to remember the difference between Chiron and Charon, or Polydictes and Polydeuces.
From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan
Castor, tamer of horses, Polydeuces, good as a boxer.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
Well! they were two stars, you know, at their original birth in men's minds, Gemini, virginal fresh stars of dawn, rising and setting alternately—those two half-earthly, half-celestial brothers, one of whom, Polydeuces, was immortal.
From Plato and Platonism by Walter Pater
Only in a passage, possibly interpolated, of the Odyssey, do we hear that Castor and Polydeuces, brothers of Helen, and sons of Tyndareus, through the favour of Zeus have immortality, and receive divine honours.
From Homer and His Age by Andrew Lang
Thus he spake in his pride, but fierce anger seized them when they heard it, and the challenge smote Polydeuces most of all.
From The Argonautica by R. C. (Robert Cooper) Seaton
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