Antiphus

American  

[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

And those that held Nisyrus, Crapathus, and Casus, with Cos, the city of Eurypylus, and the Calydnian islands, these were commanded by Pheidippus and Antiphus, two sons of King Thessalus the son of Hercules.

From The Iliad by Homer

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

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

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