Laertes

[ ley-ur-teez, -air- ]

noun

, Classical Mythology.

1. the father of Odysseus.

Laertes

/ leɪˈɜːtiːz /

noun

1. Greek myth the father of Odysseus

Example Sentences

The boy was afterwards sold to Laertes, the father of Ulysses, in whose service he put on immortality as the swineherd Eumæus.

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Irus is moved by the fear of poverty, and Laertes by the shame of it.

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Then the old Sicel woman took Laertes inside and washed him and anointed him with oil.

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Laertes also and Dolius did the same—warriors by necessity in spite of their grey hair.

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He said that his family came from Ithaca and that his father was Laertes, son of Arceisius.

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