Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), M, Menelaïum, Meriŏnes

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Meriŏnes

（Μηριόνης). Son of Molus, a halfbrother of Idomeneus of Crete, whom he accompanied to Troy with eighty ships. In Homer we read that he was there one of the bravest in the fight, and with Teucer specially distinguished in archery, an art in which the Cretans had always excelled. According to a later legend, on his return from Troy his vessel was driven to Engyion in the north of Sicily, which was supposed to be a Cretan settlement. At Gnossus in Crete his grave was shown, and both he and Idomeneus , his friend and companion in battle, were honoured as heroes (Diod.iv. 79).

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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