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Definition of Menelaus
1. Noun. (Greek mythology) the king of Sparta at the time of the Trojan War; brother of Agamemnon; husband of Helen.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Menelaus
Literary usage of Menelaus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Odyssey of Homer by Homer, William Morris (1887)
"SO they came unto Lacedaemon in the hollow dales adown, To the house of menelaus,
the lord of high renown, And they found him holding a wedding to many a ..."
2. A History of Greek Mathematics by Thomas Little Heath (1921)
"The solution of Archytas having employed the intersection of a tore and a
cylinder (with a cone as well), there would, on the assumption that menelaus ..."
3. The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury by Thomas Hobbes (1844)
"85 Let arms, said he, on both sides be laid by, And in the midst set him and
menelaus, And which of them shall have the victory, Be Helen his, ..."
4. Readings in Greek History, from Homer to the Battle of Chaeronea: A by Ida Carleton Thallon (1914)
"menelaus, one of the local chiefs, seems to have given him valuable ... Hicks and
Hill, 117 menelaus HELPS TIMOTHEUS IN CHALCIDICE, BC 363-362 menelaus the ..."
5. The History of Greece by Connop Thirlwall (1855)
"We find no intimation that menelaus left his ships on the coast of Syria, to
penetrate ... Nestor indeed speaks of this voyage of menelaus in terms which, ..."
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