A noble type of good,
Heroic womanhood.
Longfellow, Santa Filomena.
Laer´tes (3 syl.), son of Polōnius, lord chamberlain of Denmark, and brother of Ophelia. He is induced by the king to challenge Hamlet to a “friendly” duel, but poisons his own rapier. He wounds Hamlet; and in the scuffle which ensues, the combatants change swords, and Hamlet wounds Laertês, so that both die.—Shakespeare, Hamlet (1596).
Laertes (3 syl.), a Dane, whose life Gustavus Vasa had spared in battle. He becomes the trusty attendant of Christi´na, daughter of the king of Sweden, and never proves ungrateful to the noble Swede.—H. Brooke, Gustavus Vasa (1730).
Laer´tes’s Son, Ulysses.
But when his strings with mournful magic tell
What dire distress Laertês’ son befell,
The streams meandering thro’ the maze of woe,
Bid sacred sympathy the heart o’erflow.