"myrmidon" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1847, George Dibdin Pitt, The String of Pearls; or, The Fiend of Fleet Street (play), act III, scene II",
          "text": "Tobias (to Jonas Fogg, manager of a madhouse): \"I will die ere I submit to you or your vile myrmidons.\"",
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          "ref": "1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide",
          "text": "He cared no more for the Devil and all his myrmidons, for he kenned brawly he was damned.",
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          "ref": "1912, Alexander Berkman, chapter 6, in Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist",
          "text": "My heart wells up in admiration of the man, as I think of his participation in the memorable struggle of Homestead. He fought the Pinkertons, the myrmidons of Capital.",
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          "ref": "1934, Rex Stout, Fer-de-Lance, Bantam edition edition, published 1992, pages 177–178",
          "text": "[…]headed for a revelation to the District Attorney that would probably result in my having the pleasure of meeting H. R. Corbett or some other flatfooted myrmidon[…]",
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          "word": "catchpole"
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          "word": "loyal follower"
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