Tyrrheus
Americannoun
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The stag, beautiful and high-antlered, was stolen from his mother's udder and bred by Tyrrheus' boys and their father Tyrrheus, master of the royal herds, and ranger of the plain.
From The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil
Tyrrheus cheers on his array, panting hard, with his axe caught up in his hand, as he was haply splitting an oaken log in four clefts with cross-driven wedges.
From The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil
Messapus rules the foremost ranks, the sons of Tyrrheus the rear.
From The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil
There was a man in Latium named Tyrrheus, who held the office of royal herdsman.
From Romulus Makers of History by Jacob Abbott
The family that received and sheltered her was that of Tyrrheus, the chief of her father's shepherds, whose children's stag Ascanius had formerly killed.
From Romulus Makers of History by Jacob Abbott
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