Antiphates

He said to Antiphates, a handsome young man, who had formerly avoided, but now in his glory courted him, “Time, young man, has taught us both a lesson.”

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

Mandras 'mother was one of those perplexing creatures as ugly as the mythical wife of Antiphates, of whom the poet wrote that she was 'a monstrous woman whose ill-aspect struck men with horror', and yet she had married a fine man, borne a child, and become widely loved.

Captain Corelli's Mandolin De Bernieres, Louis 2003

When they arrived in the city they discovered to their consternation that they had set foot in the land of the Læstrygones, a race of fierce and gigantic cannibals, governed by their king Antiphates.

Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome E.M. Berens

But Antiphates and his fellow-giants pursued the fugitives to the sea-shore, where they now appeared in large numbers.

Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome E.M. Berens

Antiphates, king of that country, and offered to conduct them to her father's house.

Stories from the Odyssey

There he wedded a wife, and builded him a lofty house, and begat Antiphates and Mantius, two mighty sons.

Book XV Homer 1909

Now Antiphates begat Oïcles the great-hearted, and Oïcles Amphiaraus, the rouser of the host, whom Zeus, lord of the aegis, and Apollo loved with all manner of love.

Book XV Homer 1909

His adventure at Lestrygonia with Antiphates, where of twelve ships he lost eleven, men and all.

Book X Homer 1909

I might also add that many things which not only please, but are real beauties in the reading, would appear absurd upon the stage; and those not only the speciosa miracula, as Horace calls them, of transformations, of Scylla, Antiphates, and the Læstrygons, which cannot be represented even in operas; but the prowess of Achilles or Æneas would appear ridiculous in our dwarf heroes of the theater.

Dedication Vergil 1909

” He said to Antiphates, a handsome young man, who had formerly avoided, but now in his glory courted him, “Time, young man, has taught us both a lesson.

Themistocles Plutarch 1909