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  • "Teucer" Belcher, and Cribb, the champion of England, slept at the Castle

    Lavengro The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest George Henry Borrow 1842

  • Or, as Teucer wrote, “Patria est ubicumque est bene”.

    Matthew Yglesias » Former Bush Officials Refusing to Endorse Policies They Support Out of Pique 2010

  • My name is Teucer; my sire was Telamon, and Salamis is the land that nurtured me.

    Helen 2008

  • My name is Teucer; my sire was Telamon, and Salamis is the land that nurtured me.

    Helen 2008

  • The next son belonged to the King of Olba, descended from the archer Teucer, who fought with his brother Ajax at Troy; and the father of the third was a handsome nobody guiding a team of oxen in a caravan from Media.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • The next son belonged to the King of Olba, descended from the archer Teucer, who fought with his brother Ajax at Troy; and the father of the third was a handsome nobody guiding a team of oxen in a caravan from Media.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • Having found another new charioteer, Hector leaped to the ground and took off with a loud yell after Teucer, throwing a stone that nearly killed him.

    The Trojan War Barry Strauss 2006

  • He was moving, Teucer complained, like a rabid dog, not knowing where to bite next, as a Mesopotamian saying had it—dogs were the favorite animal for insults in Bronze Age invective.

    The Trojan War Barry Strauss 2006

  • In furious fighting the Lycians under Sarpedon and his lieutenant Glaucus almost broke through a gate, but the Greeks under Ajax and his brother Teucer held them off.

    The Trojan War Barry Strauss 2006

  • Teucer Mythical figure, brother of Ajax son of Telamon of Salamis, a great archer among the Greeks at Troy.

    The Trojan War Barry Strauss 2006

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