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Alcimedon

[al-sim-i-don]

noun Classical Mythology.

1.

an Arcadian hero whose daughter, Philao, was seduced by Hercules.

2.

(in the Iliad) a son of Laerces who was a captain of the Myrmidons under Patroclus.

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