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noun Classical Mythology.
- a Greek hero in the Trojan War.
- a Thracian king who fed his wild mares on human flesh and was himself fed to them by Hercules.
noun Greek myth
- a king of Argos, and suitor of Helen, who fought with the Greeks at Troy
- a king of the Bistones in Thrace whose savage horses ate strangers
Greek hero in the Trojan War, literally “advised by Zeus,” from Dios, genitive of Zeus (see Zeus) + medos “counsel, plan, device, cunning” (see Medea).