Telamonian Ajax

[ tel-uh-moh-nee-uhn ]

noun

, Classical Mythology.

1. Ajax ( def 1 ).

Example Sentences

Beginning from the right hand, we find Ajax Oileus, and next to him a naked Trojan youth, whose hands are bound behind his back, and who is guarded by Telamonian Ajax.

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This may well be the Aeginetan hero, Teucer, brother of Telamonian Ajax.

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Such as thou art, was the Telamonian Ajax, whom Homer represents as brave enough, though in learning but a fool.

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The other souls of men by death dismiss’d Stood mournful by, sad uttering each his woes; The soul alone I saw standing remote Of Telamonian Ajax, still incensed That in our public contest for the arms Worn by Achilles, and by Thetis thrown Into dispute, my claim had strongest proved, Troy and Minerva judges of the cause.

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Among the shadows whose voices ascend from darkness "like moanings of the sea," the poet discovers Telamonian Ajax, the giant who is utterly absorbed in the world within him, the source of his light and life, and Goethe, the Teutonic poet, who turns to the world about himself as a flower to the sun, and whose heart "longs and thirsts for light."

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