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  • _ Melisertes, drowned and deified along with his mother: as a sea-deity he was called Palaemon, identified by the Romans with their god of harbours, Portumnus.

    Milton's Comus John Milton 1641

  • (Cloddipole is the "Palaemon" of Virgil's _Ecl. _ iii.).

    Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853

  • Feigning fear, the journeymen drew back; but the narrators, Gurloes, Palaemon, and the others, speaking together as Maxentius, urged them on.

    The Shadow of the Torturer Wolfe, Gene 1980

  • Neighbour Palaemon, with your whole heart's skill -

    The Bucolics and Eclogues 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

  • Palaemon is a classical name, [8] and Arcite might be a corruption of Archytas.

    The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream' Compiled by Frank Sidgwick

  • His wife Ino threw herself, with his other son Melicertes, into the sea, and both were changed into sea-deities, Ino becoming Leucothea, and Melicertes Palaemon, whom the Greeks held to be friendly to the shipwrecked.

    The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream' Compiled by Frank Sidgwick

  • Diverse shapes attend him, monstrous whales, and Glaucus 'aged choir, and Palaemon, son of Ino, the swift Tritons, and Phorcus with all his army.

    The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

  • Leucothoe, frenatque rosis delphina Palaemon; alternas uiolis Nereus interserit algas; canitiem Glaucus ligat inmortalibus herbis. nec non et uariis uectae Nereides ibant audito rumore feris (hanc pisce soluto165 subleuat Oceani monstrum Tartesia tigris; hanc timor Aegaei rupturus fronte carinas trux aries; haec caeruleae suspensa leaenae innatat; haec uiridem trahitur complexa iuuencum), certatimque nouis onerant conubia donis.

    The Marriage of Honorius and Maria Claudian 1912

  • This shattered fragment of a sea-wandering scolopendra, lying on the sandy shore, twice four fathom long, all befouled with froth, much torn under the sea-washed rock, Hermonax chanced upon when he was hauling a draught of fishes out of the sea as he plied his fisher's craft; and having found it, he hung it up to the boy Palaemon and Ino, giving the sea-marvel to the sea-deities.

    Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology Anonymous 1902

  • Edwardes, Richard, author of the lost play _Palaemon and Arcyte_, 260

    A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles Sidney Lee 1892

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