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Melanion
[ muh-ley-nee-uhn ]
noun
- a youth of Arcadia, usually identified with Hippomenes as the successful suitor of Atalanta. Atalanta.
Example Sentences
Its shares currently yield 11 percent but the dividend futures market is pricing in a 60 percent cut to its 2014 award and also a 25 percent cut at BBVA, said Jad Comair, founder of Melanion Capital, a Paris-based investment manager focusing on dividend futures.
Hart鈥檚 literary agent suggested she contact children鈥檚 author Betty Miles; Hart assigned Miles an adaptation of the Greek myth of Atalanta, a princess racing against young Melanion, who desires her hand in marriage.
Miles rewrote the tale鈥檚 original ending鈥攊n which Aphrodite helps Melanion win the race and 聽get the girl鈥攖o reflect a more liberated time.
In learning's race Melanion Is beaten, one can see, By the new Atalanta; At Law School or Sorbonne, As at our native Granta, The girls the prize have won.
The clear and satisfactory reply that "MELANION" received in No. 11. to his query on the contradictions in Don Quixote, tempts me to ask for some information respecting another standard work of Spanish literature, written by a cotemporary of the great Cervantes.
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