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
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Pausanias records the tradition that at the time Zeus hurled the thunderbolt which destroyed Semele and her bridal chamber a log fell from heaven which Polydorus adorned with bronze and called Dionysus Cadmus.
From Problems in Periclean Buildings by Elderkin, G. W. (George Wicker)
The ghosts of Patroclus in Homer, of Darius in �schylus, of Polydorus in Euripides, are fine poetical ghosts: but none of them would make a ghost story.
From Gryll Grange by Peacock, Thomas Love
Death of Alcamenes,1998 succeeded by Polydorus the Agid.
From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 2 of 2 by Müller, Karl Otfried
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