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Definition of Myrmidons
1. myrmidon [n] - See also: myrmidon
Lexicographical Neighbors of Myrmidons
Literary usage of Myrmidons
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Iliad of Homer by Homer (1898)
"Thou art like her, Patroclus, with thy tears. Dost thou then bring . Sad tidings
to the myrmidons or me ? .s Or hast thou news from Phthia ? ..."
2. The Age of Fable; Or, Stories of Gods and Heroes by Thomas Bulfinch (1856)
"CADMUS —THE myrmidons. JUPITER, under the disguise of a bull, had carried away
Europa, the daughter of Agenor, king of Phoenicia. Agenor commanded his son ..."
3. The American Revolution by John Fiske (1891)
"As Samuel Adams said, their petitions had not been heard, and yet had been Effect
of the answered by armies and fleets, and by myrmidons hired from abroad. ..."
4. The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury by Thomas ( Hobbes (1845)
"400 This said, his myrmidons he led away. ILIAD. LIB. XX. WHILST with Achilles
th' Argives armed stand, And on the plain the Trojans ready all, ..."
5. Elements of Criticism by Henry Home Kames (1807)
"Go, threat thy earth-born || myrmidons ; but here Hafte to the fierce jj Achilles'
tent (he cries) All but the ever-wakeful || eyes of Jove Your own ..."
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