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  • Hearing such a speech from Antinous, Telemachus had to say, ‘Antinous, I see that thou hast good care for me and mine.

    Part II. Chapter X 1918

  • Therewithal he spake winged words to Antinous: ‘Antinous, verily thou hast a good care for me, as it were a father for his son, thou that biddest me drive our guest from the hall with a harsh command.

    Book XVII Homer 1909

  • He was in the happiest humor; he called Antinous and his secretary, heaped abundant portions with his own hand on their plates, which he bade them hold out to him, declaring as he did so that it was to prevent their fishing the best of the sausages out of the cabbage for themselves.

    The Emperor — Volume 03 Georg Ebers 1867

  • He was in the happiest humor; he called Antinous and his secretary, heaped abundant portions with his own hand on their plates, which he bade them hold out to him, declaring as he did so that it was to prevent their fishing the best of the sausages out of the cabbage for themselves.

    The Emperor — Volume 03 Georg Ebers 1867

  • He was in the happiest humor; he called Antinous and his secretary, heaped abundant portions with his own hand on their plates, which he bade them hold out to him, declaring as he did so that it was to prevent their fishing the best of the sausages out of the cabbage for themselves.

    The Emperor — Complete Georg Ebers 1867

  • He was in the happiest humor; he called Antinous and his secretary, heaped abundant portions with his own hand on their plates, which he bade them hold out to him, declaring as he did so that it was to prevent their fishing the best of the sausages out of the cabbage for themselves.

    The Emperor — Volume 03 Georg Ebers 1867

  • He was in the happiest humor; he called Antinous and his secretary, heaped abundant portions with his own hand on their plates, which he bade them hold out to him, declaring as he did so that it was to prevent their fishing the best of the sausages out of the cabbage for themselves.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867

  • Some of these men are strikingly handsome, with shapely statuesque figures that recall the Antinous and the Apollo Belvidere.

    The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 1, October, 1884 Various

  • In his youth he had been called Antinous to Henri's Caesar; but there is a certain type of beauty which, if preyed upon by vices, becomes sardonic in old age.

    The Grey Cloak Harold MacGrath 1901

  • "His artistic eye delights in the beauty of Antinous, which is celebrated, but which it has not yet been my privilege to see."

    The Emperor — Volume 01 Georg Ebers 1867

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