Megaera
Americannoun
noun
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They were usually represented as three: Tisiphone, Megaera and Alecto.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
When he's out of Humour at any Thing, then presently I'm Tisiphone, Megaera, Alecto, Medusa, Baucis, and whatsoever comes into his Head in his mad Mood.
From Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I. by Erasmus, Desiderius
The frightened devil, seeing the enormous solution of the continuity in all its dimensions, blessed himself, and cried out, Mahon, Demiourgon, Megaera, Alecto, Persephone! 'slife, catch me here when he comes!
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 by Motteux, Peter Anthony
And Megaera women perambulate the streets, with flags, with lamentable alleleu.
From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas
Up till that time she passed simply as Megaera, as an “arch witch,” as Goethe calls her.
From Sleep Walking and Moon Walking A Medico-Literary Study by Sadger, J.
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