Melampus
Americannoun
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The King also demanded to see two relics of his youth, when he was Captain of H. M. S. Melampus.
From Time Magazine Archive
His father, the King Emperor, did indeed command H. M. S. Melampus in his youth.
From Time Magazine Archive
The large frigates, and the Dutch squadron, particularly the Melampus, their flag-ship, went into action under a very heavy fire, and with a gallantry that never was surpassed.
From The Life of Admiral Viscount Exmouth by Edward Osler
Theoclymenus it is, of the prophetic race of Melampus, the history of which is here given.
From Homer's Odyssey A Commentary by Denton Jaques Snider
Theoclymenus, in the Odyssey, a prophet by descent, and of the same clan as the soothsayer Melampus, beholds the bodies and faces of the doomed wooers, ‘shrouded in night’.
From Cock Lane and Common-Sense by Andrew Lang
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