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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, who with his sister Electra avenged the murder of his father by murdering his mother and her lover Aegisthus.
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- proper noun A taxonomic
genus within thefamily Heteropterygidae — severalstick insects . - proper noun Greek mythology The son of
Agamemnon - proper noun A region of
Macedonia - proper noun A town in
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- noun (Greek mythology) the son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra; his sister Electra persuaded him to avenge Agamemnon's death by killing Clytemnestra and Aegisthus
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Examples
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Seeing afterwards Orestes in his raving fit, he grew more than ordinary serious, and took occasion to moralise (in his way) upon an evil conscience, adding, that _Orestes, in his madness, looked as if he saw something_.
The De Coverley Papers From 'The Spectator' Joseph Addison 1695
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Contrary to Iphigeneia's dream, then, Orestes is still alive and on his way to Tauris with Pylades to steal the sacred statue.
Archive 2009-03-01 Jonathan Aquino 2009
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Contrary to Iphigeneia's dream, then, Orestes is still alive and on his way to Tauris with Pylades to steal the sacred statue.
Capsule Summaries of the Great Books of the Western World Jonathan Aquino 2009
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Orestes is no longer at the Grotte mines; you know that, I suppose.
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* Manso observes that the evidence which identifies Edecon, the father of Odoacer, with the colleague of Orestes, is not conclusive.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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From the long and distinguished annals of Unitarian Universalists who decided that the grass was greener on some other side aka the Orestes Augustus Brownson files, here's a wonderful essay in Commonweal.
Philocrites: When is a Unitarian more Catholic than the Pope? 2005
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Among their schoolfellows they were called Orestes and Pylades, or Damon and Pythias, on account of their tender friendship, which constantly recalled to their schoolfellows 'minds the history of these ancient worthies.
International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 6, August 5, 1850 Various
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One leader of the caravan was a well-known Roman, called Orestes; the other was Rugier, also called Edeko.
Historical Miniatures August Strindberg 1880
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In short, it's a transvestite answer to "Orestes," made under the anything-goes guise of a pinku eiga
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This prologue to "Orestes," by Mr. Stephen Phillips, has strength, is firm in outline, somewhat tardy in movement, fit for sonorous declamation.
Primavera Poems by Four Authors Manmohan Ghose 1896
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