Menelaus
//ˌmɛn.ɪˈleɪ.əs// name
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Definitions
Proper Noun
- 1 The king of Mycenaean Sparta, the husband of Helen of Troy, the brother of Agamemnon, and the leader of the Spartan contingent of the Greek army during the Trojan War. Greek
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More examples"With joy from out the hollow wood they bound; / first, dire Ulysses, with his captains two, / Thessander bold and Sthenelus renowned, / down by a pendent rope come sliding to the ground. / Then Thoas comes; and Acamas, athirst / for blood; and Neoptolemus, the heir / of mighty Peleus; and Machaon first; / and Menelaus; and himself is there, / Epeus, framer of the fatal snare."
Etymology
From Latin Menelāus, from Ancient Greek Μενέλαος (Menélaos).
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