Theoclymenus
Americannoun
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(in theOdyssey ) a seer who foretold the return of Odysseus and the death of Penelope's suitors.
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a son of Proteus and Psamathe who succeeded his father as king of Egypt.
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He was just about to depart when Theoclymenus detained him and asked where he was to find shelter.
From Stories from the Odyssey by Havell, H. L. (Herbert Lord)
Then the godlike Theoclymenus spake among them: 'Ah, wretched men, what woe is this ye suffer?
From The Odyssey Done into English prose by Lang, Andrew
She is wooed by Theoclymenus, king of the land, brother of Theonoe.
From Authors of Greece by Lumb, T. W.
To save time he goes at once on board ship, taking with him an unfortunate outlaw, Theoclymenus, a second-sighted man, or the family of Melampus, in which the gift of prophecy was hereditary.
From The Odyssey Done into English prose by Lang, Andrew
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 Lang, Andrew
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