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HEMONYDES. His name was Maeon, son of Haemon, and he was an augur, one of the fifty Thebans whom Eteocles sent to ambush Tydeus. When Tydeus and his men emerged from the ensuing slaughter, all the Thebans, except Maeon, had been killed. Tydeus sent him back to Eteocles with the news (Thebaid II.692-703). He is not mentioned in the Roman de Thèbes (before 1163).

Hemonydes appears in Cassandra's synopsis of the Theban siege, Tr V.1492. [Adrastus: Amphiorax: Campaneus: Ethiocles: Parthonope: Polymyte: Tydeus]

The name is the ME variant of the Greek patronymic Haemonides, meaning "son of Haemon."

Statius, Thebaid, ed. and trans. J.H. Mozley, I: 446-447.
From CHAUCER NAME DICTIONARY
Copyright © 1988, 1996 Jacqueline de Weever
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