Mentes
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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She seemed a family friend, the Taphian captain, Mentes, waiting, with a light hand on her spear.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
Something must needs be done speedily," said Mentes, "and I shall tell thee how to thrust them from thy palace gates.
From National Epics by Rabb, Kate Milner
She has taken the form of Mentes, the King of a neighboring tribe; she is in disguise as she usually is when she appears on earth.
From Homer's Odyssey A Commentary by Snider, Denton Jaques
Ath�n� said, or Mentes said, that he himself was an old friend of Ulysses, and had touched at Ithaca on his way to Cyprus to buy copper.
From Tales of Troy and Greece by Lang, Andrew
Yet shalt thou surely be blest," said Mentes; "thou art not unmarked of the eye of Heaven.
From Stories from the Odyssey by Havell, H. L. (Herbert Lord)
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