Teucer
Britishnoun
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a Cretan leader, who founded Troy
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a son of Telamon and Hesione, who distinguished himself by his archery on the side of the Greeks in the Trojan War
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Iphis of humble origin beheld “The noble Anaxareté—the blood “Of ancient Teucer: he beheld, and felt “Love burn through all his frame; he struggled long “By reason to o'ercome the flame, in vain.
From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by J. J. Howard
While Peleus is constraint by no such laws, Nor Teucer.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
But Teucer, Meriones, and Ulysses were the best archers of the Achaeans.
From Tales of Troy and Greece by Andrew Lang
Teucer performs great exploits, but is disabled by Hector.
From The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by William Cowper
Thence it was that our first father, Teucer, if I rightly recall what I have heard, came in the beginning to the Rhoetean coast, and fixed on the site of empire.
From Studies in the Poetry of Italy, I. Roman by Frank Justus Miller
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