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telamon

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Telamon (tĕl`əmŏn), in Greek mythology, son of Aeacus and father of Ajax. He and Peleus killed their half-brother Phocus and were banished from Aegina. Telamon fled to Salamis, where he became king. For his aid to Hercules against Laomedon, Hercules rewarded him with Laomedon's daughter, Hesione, who bore him Teucer.
telamon [′tel·ə‚män]
(invertebrate zoology)
A curved chitinous outgrowth of the cloacal wall in various male nematodes.
telamon
(pl.telamones) A sculptured male human figure used in place of a column to support an entablature; also called an atlas. (See illustration p. 984.)
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(1) When Heracles prayed that a son might be born to Telamon and Eriboea, Zeus sent forth an eagle in token that the prayer would be granted.
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The soul which obtained the twentieth lot chose the life of a lion, and this was the soul of Ajax the son of Telamon, who would not be a man, remembering the injustice which was done him the judgment about the arms.
The Republic by Plato View in context
He was not so great, nor nearly so great, as Ajax the son of Telamon.
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