Polydorus

American  

[pol-i-dawr-uhs, -dohr-] / ˌpɒl ɪˈdɔr əs, -ˈdoʊr- /

noun

1. flourished 1st century b.c., Greek sculptor who, with Agesander and Athenodorus, carved the Laocoön group.

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Example Sentences

One morning, a well-to-do couple named Lawrence and Pauline Treherne unexpectedly show up at the Polydorus, practically begging for Susan’s help.

From Washington Post • Nov. 10, 2020

He was supposed to play a frightened Polydorus.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was a famous stronghold before the Saxons came to England, and Polydorus tells how one Gormund, an African prince, in the dim ages of the past, besieged it for seven long years.

From England, Picturesque and Descriptive A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel by Cook, Joel

Boxing, I vanquish'd Clytomedes, son790 577 Of Enops; wrestling, the Pleuronian Chief Ancæus; in the foot-race Iphiclus, Though a fleet runner; and I over-pitch'd Phyleus and Polydorus at the spear.

From The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by Cowper, William

For the statement is worthy of credit, that Theopompus and Polydorus added the following words to the rhetra above quoted: “If however the people should follow a crooked opinion, the councillors and princes shall dissent.”

From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 2 of 2 by Müller, Karl Otfried