Looking for sentences and phrases with the word Autolycus? Here are some examples.
Sentence Examples
The rogueries of Autolycus, the pedlar, add amusement to the later scenes of the play.
There's a bit of overly insistent acting as well, from the hip-swiveling Luke Robertson as the rogue Autolycus.
In the sheepshearing scene, Perdita, daughter of Leontes and Hermione, dresses as Lady Liberty, and Ethan Hawke portrays Autolycus as a canny, sneering, but irresistibly charming troubadour of the Townes Van Zandt variety.
In Homer's Odyssey the god Hermes rewards Autolycus's faithful sacrifices to him by granting Autolycus skill in trickery, but later ancient authors made him the god's son.
Examples from Classical Literature
Autolycus was seated next his father, as was natural, while the rest reclined on couches.
By the ghost of Autolycus some pickpocket, while we were moralising, has abstracted our Lascelles!
The attack made upon it by Euripides in the fragment of the Autolycus is well known.
Then came the ghost of my dead mother Anticlea, daughter to Autolycus.
Who does not chuckle over the humors of Autolycus, rogue and peddler?
That of the visit of Ulysses to the court of Autolycus, in od.
At that, Autolycus, whose hour for walking exercise had now come, arose.
And so this supper party, assembled in honour of Autolycus, broke up.
