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  • Eratosthenes, however, says in his “Hesiod” that Ctimenus and Antiphus, sons of

    Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

  • A Trojan named Antiphus, standing not more than twenty-five feet away, hurls his spear at Big Ajax.

    Ilium Simmons, Dan 1981

  • Then the old chieftain Ægyptus began the debate; he was bent double with age, and one of his sons, Antiphus, had followed Odysseus to

    Stories from the Odyssey

  • Eratosthenes, however, says in his "Hesiod" that Ctimenus and Antiphus, sons of Ganyetor, killed him for the reason already stated, and were sacrificed by Eurycles the seer to the gods of hospitality.

    Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica Hesiod

  • It was of Antiphus that he thought, as he stood up and made harangue among the elders:

    Stories from the Odyssey

  • Now for this reason he spake that his dear son, the warrior Antiphus, had gone in the hollow ships to Ilios of the goodly steeds; but the savage Cyclops slew him in his hollow cave, and made of him then his latest meal.

    Book II Homer 1909

  • Then he avoided the great press of the wooers, but where Mentor sat, and Antiphus, and Halitherses, who were friends of his house from of old, there he went and sat down; and they asked him of all his adventures.

    Book XVII Homer 1909

  • Minerva endowed him with a presence of such divine comeliness that all marvelled at him as he went by, and the suitors gathered round him with fair words in their mouths and malice in their hearts; but he avoided them, and went to sit with Mentor, Antiphus, and

    The Odyssey 1900

  • Aegyptius, a man bent double with age, and of infinite experience, the first to speak His son Antiphus had gone with

    The Odyssey 1900

  • Achilles had once taken both of them prisoners in the glades of Ida, and had bound them with fresh withes as they were shepherding, but he had taken a ransom for them; now, however, Agamemnon son of Atreus smote Isus in the chest above the nipple with his spear, while he struck Antiphus hard by the ear and threw him from his chariot.

    The Iliad of Homer 1898

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