(The) Castor and Pollux, who were born at Amyclæ. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Amyclaean SilenceAmundeville A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P…
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Castor and Pollux. (Greek, Dios kouros, young men of Zeus; dios is gen. of Zeus.) The horses of the Dioscuri. Cyllaros and Harpagos. (See Horse.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable…
called by the French St. Elme. The electric light seen playing about the masts of ships in stormy weather. (See Castor And Pollux.) And sudden breaking on their raptured sight, Appeared…
Called St. Elmo fires by the French, Castor and Pollux by the Romans. A celestial light seen occasionally to play round mast-heads, etc. (Latin, coma, hair.) Virgil makes good use of this…
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(St.). Comazants, or electric lights occasionally seen on the masts of ships before and after a storm; so called by the Spaniards because St. Elmo is with them the patron saint of sailors…
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(2 syl.). The ancient Britons called the town Caer Glou (bright city). The Romans Latinised Glou or Glove in Glev-um, and added colonia (the Roman colony of Glev-um). The Saxons restored…
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