Qué (quién) es myrmidon - definición
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Myrmidon (disambiguation)
myrmidon
['m?:m?d(?)n]
¦ noun a follower or subordinate of a powerful person, especially one who is unscrupulous.
Origin
ME: from L. Myrmidones (plural), from Gk Murmidones, a warlike people of Thessaly who accompanied Achilles to Troy.
Myrmidon
·noun One of a fierce tribe or troop who accompained Achilles, their king, to the Trojan war.
II. Myrmidon ·noun A soldier or a subordinate civil officer who executes cruel orders of a superior without protest or pity;
- sometimes applied to bailiffs, constables, ·etc.
Myrmidon (hero)
GREEK MYTHICAL CHARACTER, EPONYMOUS ANCESTOR OF THE MYRMIDONS
In Greek mythology, Myrmidon (or ; ) was the eponymous ancestor of the Myrmidons in one version of the myth.Hellanicus in Karl Wilhelm Ludwig Müller's Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum, vol.
Ejemplos de uso de myrmidon
1. She [was] captured, with several others, in the act of slave trading (having 343 on board), on 15th of April last, in the river Bonny (northward of the line), by the boats of his Majesty‘s ships Iphigenia and Myrmidon, manned with about 150 seamen, and commanded by Lieutenant G.