How To Use Telamon In A Sentence
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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
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There are other similar instances as in the case of "xystus," "prothyrum," "telamones," and some others of the sort.
The Ten Books on Architecture
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Between them stood impressive statues of giants, the telamones, which functioned as load-bearing supports for the structure.
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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
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My name is Teucer; my sire was Telamon, and Salamis is the land that nurtured me.
Helen
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The son of Telamon of Salamis and a warrior of great stature and prowess who fought against Troy.
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Teucer Mythical figure, brother of Ajax son of Telamon of Salamis, a great archer among the Greeks at Troy.
The Trojan War
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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
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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
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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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Ages, or among the Iroquois and Algonquins, make men dispense with corslets, even when the shield was worn, as in Homer, slung round the neck by a _telamon_ (_guige_ in Old French), belt, or baldric.
Homer and His Age
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The presbytery is a late Renaissance masterpiece composing a choir, a Temple by Pellegrini, two pulpits with giant telamones covered in copper and bronze, and two large organs.
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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
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On the tip of the spire is a weathervane of Fortuna, seen standing on a gilded globe supported by two telamones.
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The base of each lamp is composed of three heavily muscled telamones, all standing facing outward with feet together and arms straight at their sides, hands supported by buttresses.
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The entablature is supported by four beturbaned telamones; in the centre is the draped sarcophagus.