How To Use Menelaus In A Sentence
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The Chorus mentions that Agamemnon and his brother Menelaus are very similar to each other, ‘twin throned, twin sceptered, in twofold power.’
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It then follows from the Menelaus theorem, that every three such points are collinear provided all or two of the bisectors are external.
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Menelaus," said he, "let me go back now to my own country, for I want to get home.
The Odyssey
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Athena, disguised like a Trojan, finds the archer Pandarus to shoot an arrow at Menelaus.
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She was obliged to obey, and she called Menelaus in her own voice, and Diomede in the voice of his wife, and Ulysses in the very voice of Penelope.
Tales of Troy: Ulysses, the sacker of cities
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And though it gall thee to be told so, albeit thy city in Laconia is no doubt mighty fact, yet thou findest no place for his Scyros, displaying wealth 'midst poverty and setting Menelaus above
Andromache
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Atreus – Atreus, king of Mycene, was the son of Pelops and the father of Agamemnon and Menelaus. more info
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This arrow pierces Menelaus' clothing but does not wound him fatally, even though the blood comes gushing out.
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In Menelaus there was no wisedom, to seke and hunte after Helena, or by any meanes to possesse her, she be - yng a harlotte, her loue alienated, her hart possessed with the loue of an other manne: foolishlie he hopeth to possesse loue,
A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde
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But when Spartan Princess Helen cuckolds Menelaus with Trojan Prince Paris, warmongering Agamemnon uses it as an excuse for launching an all out war on Troy.
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He also carried with him Onias the high priest, who was also called Menelaus; for Lysias advised the king to slay Menelaus, if he would have the Jews be quiet, and cause him no further disturbance, for that this man was the origin of all the mischief the Jews had done them, by persuading his father to compel the Jews to leave the religion of their fathers.
Antiquities of the Jews
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Sir Peter Parker, captain of the frigate "Menelaus," lost his life.
The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 (of 2)
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Morpho menelaus is a kind of bright blue butterfly, but also has a slight purple colour.
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She tore away the strap that kept the helmet on so that it came away in Menelaus' hand.
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To be a dog, a mule, a cat, a fitchew, a toad, a lizard, an owl, a puttock, or a herring without a roe, I would not care; but to be Menelaus!
Act V. Scene I. Troilus and Cressida
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Facing her charming face again, Menelaus felt it thrust his sword into her body.
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Meanwhile that crown of wives removes all the arms from my dwelling, and slips out the faithful sword from beneath my head: she calls Menelaus into the house and flings wide the gateway: be sure she hoped her lover would magnify the gift, and so she might quench the fame of her ill deeds of old.
The Aeneid of Virgil
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To the halls of Dardanus, that Menelaus may recover
Iphigenia at Aulis
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For it would be ridiculous to call Menelaus a conqueror when he shot Podes, a man at a great distance, before he thought of or could provide against his danger, and yet not allow him the reward of conquest over him whom he made fly and sneak into the embraces of his wife, and whom he spoiled of his arms whilst he was yet alive, and who had himself offered the challenge, by the articles of which Menelaus now appeared to be the conqueror.
Symposiacs
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Menelaus recounts his own journey and tells how he was becalmed for twenty days.
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His brother Menelaus was the husband of Helen, for whose sake the Trojan War was fought.
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The Greeks, including Helen's wronged husband, Menelaus, ultimately admired Helen for her amorousness.
The Gods Return
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My house is pure, for Menelaus did not die here; go some one now and bid my vassal chiefs bring marriage-offerings to my palace; for the whole earth must re-echo in glad accord the hymn of my wedding with Helen, to make men envious.
Helen
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Ye feathered birds with necks outstretched, comrades of the racing clouds, on on! till ye reach the Pleiads in their central station and Orion, lord of the night; and as ye settle on Eurotas 'banks proclaim the glad tidings that Menelaus hath sacked the city of Dardanus, and will soon be home.
Helen
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Atreus – Atreus, king of Mycene, was the son of Pelops and the father of Agamemnon and Menelaus. more info
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Now previously Helen's father, King Tyndareus, had extracted a promise from her numerous suitors that they would come to Menelaus's aid if any wrong were done to him.
The Books Of Chilam Balam and the Trojan War Of Yucatan
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That Helen had not been happy in her marriage to Menelaus is revealed not only by what she says, but also by the male chauvinistic and over-bearing attitudinising of Menelaus when he meets her.
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No. Menelaus is not killed by Hector, nor is Big Ajax killed by Hector for that matter, and Achilles is not smarter than all the Greeks because he is an atheist.
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To be a dog, a mule, a cat, a fitchew, a toad, a lizard, an owl, a puttock, or a herring without a roe, I would not care; but to be Menelaus!
Act V. Scene I. Troilus and Cressida
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Menelaus," replied Telemachus, "I want to go home at once, for when I came away I left my property without protection, and fear that while looking for my father I shall come to ruin myself, or find that something valuable has been stolen during my absence.
The Odyssey
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Menelaus’s sword was drawn to seek vengeance on the agent of his humiliation and suffering, but Helen had merely to undrape her breasts to change his mind.
The Trojan War
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Einstein observes that the Menelaus theorem is symmetric with respect to the vertices of the triangle.
