Definitions for Laodamia

Laodamia La·od·a·mi·a

Spelling: [ley-od-uh-mahy-uh]
IPA: /leɪˌɒd əˈmaɪ ə/

Laodamia is a 8 letter English word.

You can make 156 anagrams from letters in Laodamia (aaadilmo).

Definitions for Laodamia

noun

  1. a daughter of Acastus who committed suicide so that she could join her husband, Protesilaus, in the underworld.
  2. (in the Iliad) the mother, by Zeus, of Sarpedon.

Examples for Laodamia

Permitted to return to life for a few hours to see his wife Laodamia.

Then Mercury touched Laodamia with his rod, and at the touch all her fear fell from her at once.

Cf. “Laodamia”: “Calm pleasures there abide, majestic pains.”

Methinks I am sick of everything he wrote, except his Laodamia.

In the edition of 1845 it was placed next to Laodamia among the "Poems of the Imagination."

She was held in the highest honor in Greek fable, and ranked with Penelope and Laodamia, the latter of whom was her niece.

The 68th poem attempts to weave into one texture his own love of Lesbia, and the romance of Laodamia and Protesilaus.

Then, Laodamia understood that her hopes were vain, and that Protesilaus was doomed to leave her.

Having thus spoken Mercury vanished from sight, and Protesilaus and Laodamia stood alone together.

Poetry gave him ‘Laodamia,’ and the fine sonnets, and the great Ode, such as it is.

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