Teucer

/ ˈtjuːsə /

noun

1. a Cretan leader, who founded Troy
2. a son of Telamon and Hesione, who distinguished himself by his archery on the side of the Greeks in the Trojan War

Example Sentences

This obscure command left them uncertain what course to pursue, until the aged Anchises remembered that one of his ancestors, Teucer, had once reigned in Crete.

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This disease was known to the ancients, and the Greek term for rabies was lyssa, referred to several times by Homer, when Hector is compared to a mad dog by Teucer and Ulysses.

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Being hospitably received by Teucer, he married his daughter Batea and became the founder of the royal house of Troy.

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Cicero25 quotes from the Teucer of Pacuvius the reproach of Telamon, couched in much the same terms as those which Teucer himself anticipates in the Ajax of Sophocles:— Segregare abs te ausu's aut sine illo Salamina ingredi, Neque paternum aspectum es veritus, quom aetate exacta indigem Liberum lacerasti orbasti extinxti, neque fratris necis Neque ejus gnati parvi, qui tibi in tutelam est traditus—26?

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"Dost thou not see bold Teucer here, "And him—no tardy chariotteer; "Who both pursue with eager force, "And both controul the thundering horse.

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