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  • Sons of Tyndarus, that is, Castor and Pollux, "the great twin brethren," held in peculiar reverence at Sparta.

    The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes

  • Thou daughter of Tyndarus, thou art no child of Zeus, but sprung, I trow, of many a sire, first of some evil demon, next of

    The Trojan Women 2008

  • Thou daughter of Tyndarus, thou art no child of Zeus, but sprung, I trow, of many a sire, first of some evil demon, next of

    The Trojan Women 2008

  • Helen, daughter of Tyndarus, justly counted among the captives.

    The Trojan Women 2008

  • Helen, daughter of Tyndarus, justly counted among the captives.

    The Trojan Women 2008

  • On this account, at any rate, he says Telemachus is of this type, “by the guidance of Apollo”; but the daughters of Tyndarus grew up, he says, under the protection of

    Essays and Miscellanies 2004

  • For the daughter of Tyndarus is most preeminent in beauty, and has been found to be no less injurious than us.

    The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. 480? BC-406 BC Euripides

  • But I will go and endeavor to persuade Tyndarus, and the city, to use their great power in a becoming manner.

    The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. 480? BC-406 BC Euripides

  • But Tyndarus was privily making up such sort of speeches for him who wished your death to speak.

    The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. 480? BC-406 BC Euripides

  • But he filled both me and my sailors with many tears; but when I come to the Nauplian shore, my wife having already landed there, expecting to clasp in my friendly embraces Orestes the son of Agamemnon, and his mother, as being in prosperity, I heard from some fisherman [7] the unhallowed murder of the daughter of Tyndarus.

    The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. 480? BC-406 BC Euripides

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