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  • Amintas is just able to gasp the name 'Thersander', and Cleomena promptly concludes that Thersander has slain Clemanthis.

    The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume II Aphra Behn 1664

  • Telephus comes out to the rescue and kills Thersander and son of Polyneices, and is himself wounded by Achilles.

    Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

  • Thibron and Thersander were the first to be cut down, and when these had fallen the rest of the troops were easily turned.

    Hellenica 2007

  • Thibron, as it befell, had just finished breakfast, and was returning to the mess with Thersander the flute-player.

    Hellenica 2007

  • Now this which follows I heard from Thersander, an Orchomenian and a man of very high repute in

    The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003

  • Tisamenos, the son of Thersander, the son of Polyneikes, was preparing to set forth from Lacedemon to found a settlement.

    The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003

  • While the Persian said these words he shed many tears, as Thersander reported; and he marvelling at his speech said to him: “Surely then it is right to tell Mardonios and to those of the Persians who after him are held in regard.”

    The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003

  • Telephus comes out to the rescue and kills Thersander and son of Polyneices, and is himself wounded by Achilles.

    Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica Hesiod

  • Clitophon gets a violent beating, to which he submits with the utmost tameness, and is thrown into fetters by the enraged husband; and though Melissa, on certain conditions, furnishes him with the means of escape from the house in the disguise of a female, he again unluckily encounters Thersander, and is lodged in the prison of Ephesus.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844 Various

  • Thersander, maddened at the prospect of being thus doubly baulked of his prey, throws gross aspersions on the purity of Leucippe, and even demands that Clitophon, in spite of his now manifest innocence, shall be executed in pursuance of the previous sentence! but the high-priest of Diana takes the lovers under his protection, and the cause is adjourned to the morrow.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844 Various

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