Definitions for Autolycus

Autolycus Au·tol·y·cus

Spelling: [aw-tol-i-kuh s]
IPA: /ɔˈtɒl ɪ kəs/

Autolycus is a 9 letter English word.

You can make 325 anagrams from letters in Autolycus (aclostuuy).

Definitions for Autolycus

noun

  1. Classical Mythology. a thief, the son of Hermes and Chione, and the grandfather of Odysseus. He possessed the power of changing the shape of whatever he stole and of making it and himself invisible.

Examples for Autolycus

That of the visit of Ulysses to the court of Autolycus, in Od.

Autolycus, aw-tol′i-kus, n. a thief: a snapper up of unconsidered trifles: a plagiarist.

The attack made upon it by Euripides in the fragment of the Autolycus is well known.

Autolycus was seated next his father, as was natural, while the rest reclined on couches.

Then came the ghost of my dead mother Anticlea, daughter to Autolycus.

And so this supper party, assembled in honour of Autolycus, broke up.

Who does not chuckle over the humors of Autolycus, rogue and peddler?

When Autolycus entered the symposium of Xenophon, all tongues were stricken dumb; man gazed at man in wonder at his goodliness.

At that, Autolycus, whose hour for walking exercise had now come, arose.

By the ghost of Autolycus some pickpocket, while we were moralising, has abstracted our Lascelles!

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