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Damastes

[ duh-mas-teez ]
/ dəˈmæs tiz /
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noun Classical Mythology.
Procrustes.
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Words nearby Damastes

Damascenus, Damascus, Damascus steel, damask, damask rose, Damastes, Damasus I, Damasus II, d'Amboise, dame, dame-school
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How to use Damastes in a sentence

  • For, when he censures Damastes, he says that Hierocepia is not on the north, but on the south.

    The Geography of Strabo, Volume III (of 3)|Strabo

  • And therefore he is called Procrustes the stretcher, though his father called him Damastes.

    The Heroes|Charles Kingsley
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