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Agelaus

American  
[aj-uh-ley-uhs] / ˌædʒ əˈleɪ əs /

noun

Classical Mythology.
  1. the herdsman of Priam who raised Paris.

  2. a son of Hercules and Omphale.

  3. (in theIliad ) a son of Phradmon who was killed by Diomedes.

  4. (in theOdyssey ) one of the suitors of Penelope.


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Then Agelaus spake among them, and made known his word to all: 'Friends, now at last will this man hold his unconquerable hands.

From The Odyssey Done into English prose by Lang, Andrew

This may not be, Agelaus," answered Melanthius, "the mouth of the narrow passage is dangerously near the entrance to the outer court.

From The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Butler, Samuel

His was the hand that first a crested chief, The son of Phradmon, Agelaus, struck.

From The Iliad by Derby, Edward George Geoffrey Smith Stanley, Earl of

Damastor's son, bold Agelaus, leads, The guilty war, Eurynomus succeeds; With these, Pisander, great Polyctor's son, Sage Polybus, and stern Amphimedon, With Demoptolemus: these six survive: The best of all the shafts had left alive.

From The Odyssey by Pope, Alexander

One of the more reasonable Suitors, Agelaus, makes a speech, which commends Telemachus but insists upon his ordering his mother "to marry the man who is best and who will give most presents."

From Homer's Odyssey A Commentary by Snider, Denton Jaques

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