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Polyphemus

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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In Homeric legend a son of Neptune, the most celebrated of the Cyclops, a huge monster with one eye, who dwelt in Sicily in a cave near Ætna, and whose eye, after making him drunk, Ulysses burnt out, lest he should circumvent him and devour him, as he had done some of his companions.

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Polyphemus'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​p/polyphemus.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
 
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