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Damon and Pythias

noun

(Greek mythology) according to a Greek legend: when Pythias was sentenced to be executed Damon took his place to allow Pythias to get his affairs in order; when Pythias returned in time to save Damon the king was so impressed that he let them both live.

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... The suspected Damon and Pythias had gone a county off to certain fens, and were, during this important week, engaged in a long process of ...

— The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper • Martin Farquhar Tupper

... hope she had expressed was shared by me. I hoped that "we" might meet again, and it seemed to me desirable at the moment that she should understand (and that my companion should be reminded) that he and I were as Damon and Pythias, as Castor and Pollux, as Pylades and Orestes, and all that sort of thing. Therefore I leaped quickly at the word "we," and, before my companion had time ...

— American Adventures - A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' • Julian Street

... says, "It's been the history of the world that it brings trouble." And he says to look at Damon and Pythias, and Othello and the Merchant of Venus. And he named about a hundred prominent couples like that out of ...

— Danny's Own Story • Don Marquis

... Tale cviii., "of Constancy in adhering to Promises," founded on Damon and Pythias or, perhaps, ...

— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 5 • Richard F. Burton

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