Celaeno
Americannoun
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Classical Mythology. a Pleiad.
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Astronomy. one of the six visible stars of the Pleiades.
noun
Example Sentences
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“I know what Celaeno wants,” she went on.
From Literature
Sir Home offered me the command of the Celaeno, a fine frigate, the captain of which had died suddenly.
From Project Gutenberg
But on a rock exceeding high yet did Celæeno rest, Unhappy seer! there breaks withal a voice from out her breast: 'What, war to pay for slaughtered neat, war for our heifers slain?
From Project Gutenberg
Not Helenus the prophet, though he counselled of many a terror, not boding Celaeno foretold me of this grief.
From Project Gutenberg
The shores of the Strophades first receive me thus won from the waves, Strophades the Greek name they bear, islands lying in the great Ionian sea, which boding Celaeno and the other Harpies inhabit since Phineus' house was shut on them, and they fled in terror from the board of old.
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