Alexandros
(def 2).
Historical Examples
Alexandros quickly assembled a small council of those of his own opinion, and excommunicated his priest.
A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 2 (of 10) Franois-Marie Arouet (AKA Voltaire)
So all sang of his strength and his great deeds, and they called him Alexandros, the helper of men.
Museum of Antiquity L. W. Yaggy
One of the youngest, Paris, also named Alexandros, surpassed the others in beauty.
Odysseus, the Hero of Ithaca Homer
But the epitome of the Cypria which has come down to us states expressly that Alexandros did go to Sidon.
The Heroic Age H. Munro Chadwick
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