45 examples of meleager in sentences

Their colonels were Clituswhose regiment was on the extreme right, the post of peculiar dangerGlaucias, Ariston, Sopolis, Heraclides, Demetrias, Meleager, and Hegelochus.

Coenus' brigade was on the right, and nearest to the shield-bearers; next to this stood the brigade of Perdiccas, then Meleager's, then Polysperchon's; and then the brigade of Amynias, but which was now commanded by Simmias, as Amynias had been sent to Macedonia to levy recruits.

But had not Meleager been sick, and Acrasia drunk, the Senses might have whistled for the victory.

In the family breakfast room we saw some fine Gobelin tapestry, representing the classical story of Meleager.

He turned into English verse all Virgil's Eclogues and several of Ovid's Epistles; and wrote a Tragedy on the fable of Meleager, which was acted during the holidays by himself and his comrades, and in which he sustained the character of the hero.

Oeneus reigned in Aetolia, and because he did not sacrifice to Diana with his other gods (see more in Labanius his Diana), she sent a wild boar, insolitae magnitudinis, qui terras et homines misere depascebatur, to spoil both men and country, which was afterwards killed by Meleager.

Meleager, also a Gadarene, preserved memories of the people of his birthplace in his poems, and Caecilius of Caleacte, who seems to have been in Italy at about this time, was not beyond quoting Moses in his rhetorical works.

Althaea contrived to keep the log unconsumed for many years, but when her son killed her two brothers, she threw it angrily into the fire, where it was quickly consumed, and Meleager expired at the same time.

The six sons of OEneus and Althea were noble, handsome fellows; but the noblest and handsomest of them all was Meleager, the youngest.

When Meleager was a tiny babe only seven days old, a strange thing happened in the white palace of the king.

And so, as the years went by, Meleager grew up to be a brave young man, so gentle and noble that his name became known in every land of Greece.

Very many of these men had been with Meleager in that wonderful voyage in search of the Golden Fleece, and he felt sure they would come.

It was Meleager.

All this vexed Meleager, and he tried to make his uncles give back the spear and the prize, and stop their unmannerly talk.

But they grew worse and worse, and at last set upon Meleager, and would have killed him if he had not drawn his sword to defend himself.

Some who did not see the fight said that Meleager killed them, but I would rather believe that they killed each other in their drunken fury.

A young man who did not like Meleager, had run on in front and had reached the city before the rest of the company had fairly started.

Queen Althea was standing at the door of the palace, and when she saw him she asked what had happened in the forest He told her at once that Meleager had killed her brothers, for he knew that, with all their faults, she loved them very dearly.

After the death of Meleager, Atalanta went back to her old home among the mountains of Arcadia.

Nor can I see anything but maudlin sentimentality in such conceits as Meleager utters in two of his poems (Anthology, 88, 93) in which he expresses jealousy of sleep, for its privilege of closing his mistress's eyes; and again of the flies which suck her blood and interrupt her slumber.

After referring to the stories of Orpheus and Eurydice, Meleager and Atalanta, Alcyone and Ceyx, Cephalus and Procris, the writer adds, "It is no exaggeration to say that any school-girl could tell Mr. Finck a dozen others."

[Footnote 183: The guinea fowl got their Greek name, meleagrides, because the story was that the sisters of Meleager were turned into guinea hens.

Pliny (H.N. X, 38) says that they fight every year on Meleager's tomb.

Althea 'twashis mothersmote The mighty Meleager down Who slew the Calydonian boar; The mother slew her child.

And yet she struck him deadthat mighty man, Grim Meleager, her own son!

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