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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The founder and first king of Troy and father of Priam.
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Jake Laomedon and Troy Priam were on the first mission to explore this unique world.
365 tomorrows » 2008 » May : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2008
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Mysians, being joined in love with the mighty Heracles when he was journeying in quest of the horses of proud Laomedon — horses the fleetest of foot that the Asian land nourished, — and destroyed in battle the tribe of the dauntless Amazons and drove them forth from all that land.
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Zeus: and he bestowed it on Laomedon as a price for
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According to Homer, a generation before the Trojan War, King Laomedon of Troy promised horses to Heracles in exchange for ridding Troy of a sea monster.
The Trojan War Barry Strauss 2006
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According to Homer, a generation before the Trojan War, King Laomedon of Troy promised horses to Heracles in exchange for ridding Troy of a sea monster.
The Trojan War Barry Strauss 2006
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Laomedon, the Orchomenian, that by advice of his physician, he used to run long distances to keep off some disease of his spleen, and by that means having, through labor and exercise, framed the habit of his body, he betook himself to the great garland games, and became one of the best runners at the long race; so it happened to
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003
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Carthaginians in war, the other totally ruined and destroyed them; the city of Troy was the first time taken by Hercules for the horses promised him by Laomedon, the second time by Agamemnon, by means of the celebrated great wooden horse, and the third time by
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003
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Neptune and Apollo at Troy under Laomedon, or as did Renault of
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Neptune and Apollo at Troy under Laomedon, or as did Renault of
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Priam son of Laomedon, elder king of Ilium (Troy), father of Hector and Paris and many other sons
Ilium Simmons, Dan 1981
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