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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Example Sentences

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

But those who possessed Nisyrus, and Crapathus, and Casus, and Cos, the city of Eurypylus, and the Calydnæ isles, Phidippus and Antiphus, both sons of the Thessalian king, the son of Hercules, commanded.

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

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

From The Iliad by Homer

Of those who round Maeonia's realms reside, Or whom the vales in shades of Tmolus hide, Mestles and Antiphus the charge partake, Born on the banks of Gyges' silent lake.

From The Iliad by Pope, Alexander

The next pair, Papilio Theseus, and P. Antiphus, have been united as one species both by De Haan and in the British Museum Catalogues.

From Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays by Wallace, Alfred Russel