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  • proper noun Greek mythology One of the Alkyonides.
  • proper noun astronomy A small satellite of Saturn.

Etymologies

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From Ancient Greek Μεθώνη.

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Examples

  • With these new resources Philip laid siege to Methone in 354 in a final attempt to drive the Athenians from the Macedonian heartland.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

  • With these new resources Philip laid siege to Methone in 354 in a final attempt to drive the Athenians from the Macedonian heartland.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

  • With these new resources Philip laid siege to Methone in 354 in a final attempt to drive the Athenians from the Macedonian heartland.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

  • Initial calculations suggest the moon is about 2km-wide (1.2 miles) and its orbit sits between those of two other Saturnian moons, Methone and Pallene.

    Saturn’s Sixtieth » Fanboy.com 2007

  • Bogud of Mauretania, a refugee from his brother, Bocchus, was given command of Methone, while the other big naval base, on the island of Leucas, was given to Gaius Sosius.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • He had put himself on a line running between the island of Corcyra and Methone, a Peloponnesian port just to the north of Cape Acritas.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • From Pierus and the nymph Methone sprang Oeager; and from

    Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

  • Though several hundred galleys were left to garrison Methone as well as Corcyra and other strategic islands, the main fleet still numbered some four hundred and eighty of the most massive quinqueremes ever built.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • It is near the moons Methone and Pallene, suggesting the new satellite may be part of a family of moons.

    Nunc Scio » Blog Archive » Saturn loves the moons 2007

  • The new moon, officially designated as S/2007 S 4, but which has been unofficially nicknamed "Frank," orbits Saturn between the paths of Methone and Pallene, two small sister moons also discovered in Cassini images in 2004.

    Saturn Mom to 60 Moons, New One Found | Impact Lab 2007

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