Elpenor
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Now when I saw him there I wept for pity and called out to him: ‘How is this, Elpenor, how could you journey to the western gloom swifter afoot than I in the black lugger?’
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
We have just had the Present, and in the case of Elpenor, the immediate Past, which is not yet wholly gone.
From Homer's Odyssey A Commentary by Snider, Denton Jaques
We have burning and howe even in the case of an obscure oarsman like Elpenor.
From Homer and His Age by Lang, Andrew
A tomb along the watery margin raise, The tomb with manly arms and trophies grace, To show posterity Elpenor was.
From The Odyssey by Pope, Alexander
The manner of his descent, and the apparition of the shades: his conversation with Elpenor, and with Tiresias, who informs him in a prophetic manner of his fortunes to come.
From The Odyssey by Pope, Alexander
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