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  • noun A member of a mythical Greek tribe called the Laestrygonians.
  • adjective Of or relating to the mythical Greek tribe called the Laestrygonians.

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Examples

  • And without the town they fell in with a damsel drawing water, the noble daughter of Laestrygonian Antiphates.

    Book X Homer 1909

  • ‘Even so I spake, but their spirit within them was broken, as they remembered the deeds of Antiphates the Laestrygonian, and all the evil violence of the haughty Cyclops, the man-eater.

    Book X Homer 1909

  • The Laestrygonian of the Last Battle is introduced as a pre-historic Norseman.

    The World's Desire Henry Rider Haggard 1890

  • Laestrygonian, and all the evil violence of the haughty

    The Odyssey 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1878

  • And without the town they fell in with a damsel drawing water, the noble daughter of Laestrygonian Antiphates.

    The Odyssey 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1878

  • Aeolus, who received him hospitably and furthered him on his way, but even so he was not to reach home, for to his great grief a hurricane carried him out to sea again; how he went on to the Laestrygonian city Telepylos, where the people destroyed all his ships with their crews, save himself and his own ship only.

    The Odyssey 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1868

  • Sickening in the Laestrygonian amphora for me refine;

    Horace Theodore Martin 1862

  • Her shores were, to the polished race which dwelt by the Bosphorus, objects of a mysterious horror, such as that with which the Ionians of the age of Homer had regarded the Straits of Scylla and the city of the Laestrygonian cannibals.

    The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1 Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829

  • He told her all about the Cyclops and how he had punished him for having so ruthlessly eaten his brave comrades; how he then went on to Aeolus, who received him hospitably and furthered him on his way, but even so he was not to reach home, for to his great grief a hurricane carried him out to sea again; how he went on to the Laestrygonian city Telepylos, where the people destroyed all his ships with their crews, save himself and his own ship only.

    The Odyssey 1900

  • “The men when they got on shore followed a level road by which the people draw their firewood from the mountains into the town, till presently they met a young woman who had come outside to fetch water, and who was daughter to a Laestrygonian named

    The Odyssey 1900

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