Anax

[ an-aks ]

noun

, Classical Mythology.

1. one of the Gigantes and father of Asterius.

Example Sentences

Anax.273.“Cari sunt parentes, cari liberi, propinqui, familiares; sed omnes omnium caritates patria una complexa est; pro qua quis bonus dubitet mortem oppetere si ei sit profuturus?”

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Notwithstanding such a catch—he used to vow that she was more resplendent than even Anax Imperator—he continued to take an interest in dragon-flies, until his monograph was unluckily forestalled a few years later.

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When Troy was taken, Calchas excited much uneasiness among the Greeks, by a prediction, that if Asty´anax, the son of Hector, were permitted to live, he would one day avenge his father’s death, and raise Troy from its ruins.

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In Anax junius the basal part of the abdomen in the male is a vivid ultra-marine blue, and in the female grass-green.

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I am indebted to this naturalist for the following facts on Hetærina, Anax, and Gomphus.

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