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Myrmidon

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Myrmidon
one of the fierce Thessalonians who fought in the Trojan War under their king, Achilles. [Gk. Myth.: Iliad]
See : War
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Whether myrmidons of Justice, specially sent down from London, would be lying in ambush behind the gate?
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They say the Myrmidons returned home safely under Achilles' son Neoptolemus; so also did the valiant son of Poias, Philoctetes.
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Go home, then, with your ships and comrades to lord it over the Myrmidons.
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