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Palaemon may refer to:
In Greek mythology:
- Palaemon, epithet of Heracles
- Palaemon, son of Heracles by either Autonoe or Iphinoe
- Palaemon, the name that Melicertes received upon deification
- Palaemon, one of the Argonauts, son of Aetolus (not to be confused with Palaemonius, son of Hephaestus and also an Argonaut)
- Palaemon, a son of Priam
Historical figures:
- Remmius Palaemon, the ancient Roman grammarian
- Teacher of Saint Pachomius
In science:
- Palaemon (genus), a genus of shrimp
Palaemon is a genus of caridean shrimp of the family Palaemonidae. The conventional circumscription of the genus Palaemon is probably paraphyletic. Molecular data suggest that Palaemonetes, as well as the genera Exopalaemon and Couteriella, are nested within Palaemon. Phylogenetic affinities in these groups correspond better with geographical origin than conventional genus assignments.
Usage examples of "palaemon".
Soon I was as intoxicated with the thought of the mountains as I had been once, before Master Palaemon had told me the correct location of Thrax, with the idea of the sea.
But it will make Master Palaemon happy to hear you think so well of me.
If I had ever truly been a torturer, a torturer in the sense that Master Gurloes and even Master Palaemon were torturers, I was one no longer.
I cast her to one side in the vague hope that she might be found and eventually returned to Master Palaemon, and took the Claw from its little bag at my throat.
I suddenly understood why Master Palaemon had enjoyed talking with me when!
I began this record of my life, to reveal any of the secrets of our guild that were imparted to me by Master Palaemon and Master Gurloes just before I was elevated, at the feast of Holy Katharine, to the rank of journeyman.
Mentally, I confused it with the dying belt of tropical vegetation that lay between our own land and theirs, although I would have distinguished the two without difficulty if Master Palaemon had asked me to in the classroom.
Journeyman Palaemon came in to talk to me on the morning I was going to get my whipping.
Winnoc had said, and about what Master Palaemon had said to him so long ago.
Surely, whatever crime Master Palaemon had committed had been hidden later by all the brothers of the guild.
I had Master Palaemon call the brother on duty to let us in, then stood for a moment looking at the cramped bed and the tiny table.
I had no friends in the guild I could be sure of beyond Master Palaemon, and he would be of little use in what I planned.
Not because I bore him or them any ill will, but because I felt that being locked below the tower for a time would arouse in them a sensitivity to that principle of justice of which Master Palaemon had spoken, and because it would be the best way to assure that the order forbidding torture I intended to issue would be carried out.
Master Palaemon still tried to impart, I accepted only one: loyalty to the guild.
After serving the journeymen in the refectory we had breakfasted as usual, met Master Palaemon in our classroom, and after a brief preparatory lecture followed him to the lower levels to view the work of the preceding night.