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Run into my position in field with small force Achilles led
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myrmidons
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n. (plural of myrmidon English)
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The Myrmidons ( Myrmidones ) were a legendary people of Greek mythology , native to the region of Thessaly . During the Trojan War, they were commanded by Achilles , as described in Homer 's Iliad . According to Greek legend, they were created by Zeus from ...
Usage examples of myrmidons.
Pummice, with his myrmidons, in aprons and paper caps, retouching the gilding.
Someone identifies them as the Myrmidons, swarming like ants toward the victorious Trojans.
The Myrmidons extinguish the fire in the one half-burnt Achaean ship we had set alight, and then, roaring like a great animal with a single throat, the armed savages burst among us.
You love battle and blood and slaughtering your enemies, so take your fawning Myrmidons and go!
With his grievances aired anew, Achilles goes on to question why his Myrmidons and the Achaeans and the Argives should even be fighting this war.
The fourth threw down his spear and ran to wake the Myrmidons to let them know that their lord and captain had been possessed by a demon spirit.
The Myrmidons could not have gone more happily to fight for Achilles, nor the Macedonians for Alexander the Great.
There even to this day do the youths of the Myrmidons take up on their shoulders fullbrimming jars, and with swift feet strive for victory in the race.
Invulnerable Prince of Myrmidons, He sparkled, by no sage Athene schooled.
At which last words the door flew open, and in came Squire Western, with his parson and a set of myrmidons at his heels.