telamon

[ US /ˈtɛɫəmən/ ]
NOUN
  1. a figure of a man used as a supporting column
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How To Use telamon In A Sentence

  • Arriving at Telamon, in Etruria, and coming ashore, he proclaimed freedom for the slaves; and many of the countrymen, also, and shepherds thereabouts, who were already freemen, at the hearing his name flocked to him to the sea-side. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
  • There are other similar instances as in the case of "xystus," "prothyrum," "telamones," and some others of the sort. The Ten Books on Architecture
  • Between them stood impressive statues of giants, the telamones, which functioned as load-bearing supports for the structure.
  • Down goes the heavy lance; down goes the ponderous shield, suspended by a _telamon: "Ohitarge grant cume peises al col_!" down goes the plated byrnie, "_Ohi grant broine cum me vas apesant_" [Footnote: _La Chancun de Willame_, lines Homer and His Age
  • My name is Teucer; my sire was Telamon, and Salamis is the land that nurtured me. Helen
  • The son of Telamon of Salamis and a warrior of great stature and prowess who fought against Troy.
  • Teucer Mythical figure, brother of Ajax son of Telamon of Salamis, a great archer among the Greeks at Troy. The Trojan War
  • In _Iliad_, II. 388, the shield (_aspis_) is spoken of as "covering a man about" ([Greek: _amphibrotae_]), while, in the heat of battle, the baldric (_telamon_), or belt of the shield, "shall be wet with sweat. Homer and His Age
  • O Telamon, King of Salamis, the feeding ground of bees, who hast thy home in a sea-girt isle that lieth nigh the holy hills where first Athena made the grey olive-branch to appear, a crown for heavenly heads and a glory unto happy Athens, thou didst come in knightly brotherhood with that great archer, Alcemena's son, to sack our city The Trojan Women
  • To Telamon, one of his bravest followers, he gave Hesione, the daughter of the king, in marriage. Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome
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