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  • Along with Chonus and Nireus, which proud Argonauts gave great Herakles peace?

    Kouroi Hal Duncan 2005

  • Along with Chonus and Nireus, which proud Argonauts gave great Herakles peace?

    Archive 2005-01-01 Hal Duncan 2005

  • And again he says: 'Your beauteous form is destitute of intelligence; the wise Ulysses is praised more highly than the handsome Nireus.'

    Satyricon 2007

  • Beautiful Nireus, by that Homer so much admired, once dead, is more deformed than Thersites, and

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Scipio, a young man of twenty-three years of age, and the most beautiful of the Romans, equal in person to that Grecian Charinus, or Homer's Nireus, at the siege of a city in Spain, when as a noble and most fair young gentlewoman was brought unto him, [5657] and he had heard she was betrothed to a lord, rewarded her, and sent her back to her sweetheart.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Nireus three well-trimmed ships from Syme brought.

    Essays and Miscellanies 2004

  • Nireus, the son of Aglaia (and Charopus, bright-faced king),

    Rhetoric Aristotle 2002

  • Nireus likewise from Syme (three well-fashioned ships did bring),

    Rhetoric Aristotle 2002

  • Along with Chonus and Nireus, which proud Argonauts gave great Herakles peace?

    Notes From The Geek Show Hal Duncan 1999

  • Along with Chonus and Nireus, which proud Argonauts gave great Herakles peace?

    Archive 1999-01-01 Hal Duncan 1999

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