Antiphus

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[an-tuh-fuhs] / ˈæn tə fəs /

noun

Classical Mythology.

1. (in theIliad ) a Trojan ally, the son of Talaemenes and a nymph.

2. a Greek commander who sailed from Troy with Odysseus and was devoured by Polyphemus.

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Antiphus

Mesthles and Antiphus commanded the Meonians, sons of Talaemenes, born to him of the Gygaean lake.

From The Iliad by Homer

But at him Antiphus, of the varied corslet, the son of Priam, took aim through the crowd with a sharp spear.

From The Iliad of Homer (1873) by Buckley, Theodore Alois

Then the old chieftain Ægyptus began the debate; he was bent double with age, and one of his sons, Antiphus, had followed Odysseus to Troy, while another, Eurynomus, was among the suitors of Penelope.

From Stories from the Odyssey by Havell, H. L. (Herbert Lord)

Nisyrus, Casus, Crapathus, and Cos Where reign'd Eurypylus, with all the isles Calydnæ named, under two valiant Chiefs Their troops disposed; Phidippus one, and one, His brother Antiphus, begotten both830 By Thessalus, whom Hercules begat.

From The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by Cowper, William

Aegyptus cannot of course know of the fate Antiphus had met with, for there had as yet been no news of or from Ulysses.

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