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

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

From The Iliad by Homer

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

Nisyrus, Casus, Crapathus, and Cos Where reign'd Eurypylus, with all the isles Calydnæ named, under two valiant Chiefs Their troops disposed; Phidippus one, and one, His brother Antiphus, begotten both830 By Thessalus, whom Hercules begat.

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

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

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