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MYRMIDONES , in See also: Greek See also: legend, an Achaean See also: race, in Homeric times inhabiting Phthiotis in See also: Thessaly
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According to the See also: ancient tradition, their See also: original home was See also: Aegina, whence they crossed over to Thessaly with See also: Peleus, but the converse view is now more generally accepted
.
Their name is derived from a supposedancestor, son of See also: Zeus and Eurymedusa, who was wooed by the See also: god in the See also: form of an See also: ant (Gr
.
/lbw
?
); or from the repeopling of Aegina (when all its inhabitants had died of the plague) with ants changed into men by Zeus at the prayer of See also: Aeacus, See also: king of the
See also: island
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The word " myrmidon " has passed into the See also: English language to denote a subordinate who carries out the orders of his See also: superior without mercy or consideration for others
.
See See also: Strabo viii
.
375, ix
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433; See also: Homer, Iliad, ii
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681; schol. on Pindar Nem. iii
.
21; Clem
.
Alex., Protrepticon, p
.
34, ed . See also: Potter
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MYROBALANS, the name given to the astringent fruits of several See also: species of Terminalia, largely used in See also: India for dyeing and tanning and exported for the same purpose
.
They are large deciduous trees and belong to the See also: family Combretaceae
.
The chief kinds are the chebulic or black myrobalan, from Terminalia Chebula, which are smooth, and the beleric, from T. belerica, which are five-angled and covered with a greyish down
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