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
But be that as it may, the war broke out in the reign of Polydorus and Theopompus, kings of Sparta, at the time when the office of archon at Athens was still decennial.
From The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians (Vol. 1 of 6) by Rollin, Charles
It was a famous stronghold before the Saxons came to England, and Polydorus tells how one Gormund, an African prince, in the dim ages of the past, besieged it for seven long years.
From England, Picturesque and Descriptive A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel by Cook, Joel
Polydorus and Theopompus limit the power of the popular assembly, b.
From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 2 of 2 by Müller, Karl Otfried
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