IDOMENEUS

In Greek mythology, Idomeneus was a Cretan warrior, grandson of Minos. He led the Cretan armies to the Trojan War and was also one of Helen's suitors. Meriones was his charioteer and brother-in-arms.

After the war, his ship hit a horrible storm. Idomeneus promised Poseidon that he would sacrifice the first living thing he saw when he returned home if Poseidon would save his ship and crew. The first living thing was his son, whom Idomeneus duly sacrificed. The gods were angry at his murder of his own son and they sent him in exile to Calabria in Italy. (Virgil III, 400)

In an alternate version, his own subjects on Crete sent him in exile because he brought a plague with him from Troy. He fled to Calabria, and then Colophon, Asia Minor, where he died.

Specialty Definition: IDOMENEUS

Domain	Definition
Literature	Idomeneus (4 syl.). King of Crete, and ally of the Greeks in the siege of Troy After the city was burnt he made a vow to sacrifice whatever he first encountered, if the gods granted him a safe return to his kingdom. It was his own son that he first met, and when he offered him up to fulfil his vow he was banished from Crete as a murderer. (Homer: Iliad.) Compare the story of Jephthah in Judges xi. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Abbreviations & Acronyms: IDOMENEUS

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Entry	Source	Expression	Field
IDOMENEUS	English	Information and Data on Open Media for Networks of Users	N/A
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Usage Frequency: IDOMENEUS

"IDOMENEUS" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "IDOMENEUS" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Anagrams: IDOMENEUS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-e-i-m-n-o-s-u"
	-1 letter: demonise, eudemons, seminude.
	-2 letters: domines, emodins, eudemon, misdone, sidemen.
	-3 letters: demies, demise, demons, denies, denims, dienes, domine, donees, donsie, emends, emodin, endues, ensued, eonism, eosine, indues, medius, mensed, meoued, mondes, monied, monies, mounds, moused, neumes, noised, nudies, nudism, odeums, odiums, omened, onside, osmund, seined, sodium, undies, undoes.
	-4 letters: deems, deism, demes, demon, demos, denes.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-e-i-m-n-o-s-u"
	+2 letters: eudaemonism, eudaemonist.
	+3 letters: eudaemonisms, eudaemonists.
	+4 letters: documentaries, eudaemonistic, medicamentous, melodiousness, pneumonitides.
	+5 letters: decamethoniums, discouragement, mendaciousness, pseudonymities, undomesticated.
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