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Mentes

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[men-teez] / ˈmɛn tiz /

noun

  1. (in theOdyssey ) a captain of the Taphians. Athena assumed his form when she urged Telemachus to search for Odysseus.


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She seemed a family friend, the Taphian captain, Mentes, waiting, with a light hand on her spear.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

I avow me to be Mentes, son of wise Anchialus, and I bear rule among the Taphians, lovers of the oar.

From The Odyssey Done into English prose by Lang, Andrew

Ath�n� said, or Mentes said, that he himself was an old friend of Ulysses, and had touched at Ithaca on his way to Cyprus to buy copper.

From Tales of Troy and Greece by Lang, Andrew

His aide, Mentes, was likewise wounded, and the two were replaced by D. Francisco Medina and D. Manuel de Cordova.

From The History of Cuba, vol. 2 by Johnson, Willis Fletcher

"Veni, Creator Spiritus, Mentes tuorum visita, Imple superna gratia, Quae tu creasti pectora!"

From Giordano Bruno by Pater, Walter