a son of Zeus and Europa and king of Lycia killed in the Trojan War

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• Sarpedon — noun Etymology: Latin, from Greek Sarpēdōn Date: 14th century a son of Zeus and Europa and king of Lycia killed in the Trojan War …   New Collegiate Dictionary

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• Sarpedon — /sahr peed n, pee don/, n. Class. Myth. a Lycian prince, son of Zeus, killed by Patroclus in the Trojan War. * * * ▪ Greek mythology  in Greek legend, son of Zeus, the king of the gods, and Laodameia, the daughter of Bellerophon; he was a Lycian… …   Universalium

• Sarpedon — [sär pēd′ n, särpē′dän΄] n. [L < Gr Sarpēdōn] Gr. Myth. a son of Zeus and Europa, who becomes king of Lycia and is allowed to live three generations: in some versions, he is killed by Patroclus in the Trojan War …   English World dictionary