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TYDEUS , in See also:Greek See also:legend, son of Oeneus, See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of See also:Calydon, and Periboea. Having slain his See also:uncle (or other relatives) he fled for See also:refuge to See also:Argos, where Adrastus received him hospitably and purified him from the See also:guilt of See also:blood. Tydeus took See also:part in the expedition of the " Seven against See also:Thebes," in which, although small of stature, he greatly distinguished himself. In the desperate See also:battle under the walls of the See also:city, he was severely wounded by Melanippus, but managed to slay his adversary. See also:Athena, who held Tydeus in See also:special favour, hastened to the See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field of battle, to heal him of his See also:wound and bestow See also:immortality upon him. But the sight of Tydeus, cleaving open the See also:skull of his dead enemy and sucking out his brains, so disgusted her that she See also:left him to his See also:fate. Tydeus married Deipyle, the daughter of Adrastus, by whom he had a son, the famous See also:Diomedes, frequently called Tydides.
See also:Homer, Iliad, xiv. 114—132 ; See also:Apollodorus iii. 6, 8 ; Schol. on See also:Pindar, Nemec, x. 12.
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