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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There is Belcher the younger—not the mighty one, who is gone to his place, but the Teucer Belcher, the most scientific pugilist that ever entered a ring, only wanting strength to be—I won't say what....
From Res Judicat? Papers and Essays by Birrell, Augustine
This may well be the Aeginetan hero, Teucer, brother of Telamonian Ajax.
From A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) by Smith, A. H.
Teucer came the ninth, stretching his bent 277 bow, and stood under the shield of Telamonian Ajax.
From The Iliad of Homer (1873) by Buckley, Theodore Alois
His brother Teucer used to stand behind his shield and aim arrows at the Trojans.
From Aunt Charlotte's Stories of Greek History by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
Then what Trojan first did blameless Teucer slay?
From The Iliad of Homer (1873) by Buckley, Theodore Alois
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