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What is another word for Ephialtes?

Pronunciation: [ˈɛfɪˌalts] (IPA)

Ephialtes is a Greek word that refers to a nightmare or a daemon that causes nightmares. Although the word has a specific meaning, there are many synonyms for it that can be used in different contexts. One synonym for Ephialtes is a bad dream or a nightmare. Another synonym is a phantasm, which refers to an illusion or hallucination. Additionally, a terror or a fright may be considered synonyms for Ephialtes, as they both represent a feeling of intense fear or apprehension. Lastly, a specter or a spectre can be used as a synonym for Ephialtes as these words represent a ghostly apparition that may cause fear or uneasiness.
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Ephialtes, true to his promise, if not to his country, led the Persian Immortals along this narrow way.
"The Story of the Greeks"
H. A. Guerber
As to Ephialtes, the truth of the story, as Aristotle has told it, is this: that having made himself formidable to the oligarchical party, by being an uncompromising asserter of the people's rights in calling to account and prosecuting those who any way wronged them, his enemies, lying in wait for him, by the means of Aristodicus the Tanagraean, privately dispatched him.
"Plutarch-Lives-of-the-noble-Grecians-and-Romans"
Clough, Arthur Hugh
Callisthenes, however, says that he did not agree to any such articles, but that upon the fear this victory gave him, he did in reality thus act, and kept off so far from Greece, that when Pericles with fifty, and Ephialtes with thirty galleys, cruised beyond the Chelidonian isles, they did not discover one Persian vessel.
"Plutarch-Lives-of-the-noble-Grecians-and-Romans"
Clough, Arthur Hugh

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