Sarpedon
Americannoun
noun
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Just as Farage was explaining the purpose of his demonstration to the assembled media, another vessel hove alongside—to wit, a white pleasure cruiser by the name of Sarpedon.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 23, 2016
A rusty fishing trawler called Wayward Lad with nets hanging off the back pulled up alongside Geldof’s boat, the Sarpedon, and apparently collected a fisherman who had been on board.
From The Guardian • Jun. 15, 2016
“Beware the toils of war,” Sarpedon the Lycian hero says to Hector, the Trojan prince, in Robert Fagles’ translation, “the mesh of the huge dragnet sweeping up the world.”
From Slate • Dec. 29, 2014
He comes opportunely to the assistance of Ajax, routs the Trojans, and kills Sarpedon, whose body, but without the armour, is rescued by Hector and Glaucus.
From The Iliad of Homer (1873) by Buckley, Theodore Alois
Daughter of Agenor; wife of Jupiter, 44-48, 59; mother of Minos, Rhadamanthus, and Sarpedon, 45, 325; significance, 386.
From Myths of Greece and Rome Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art by Guerber, H. A. (H?l?ne Adeline)
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