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MEROPES

Volume 13 · 67 words · 1815 Edition

in Fabulous History, one of the Atlantides. She married Sisyphus the son of Æolus, and like her sisters was changed into a constellation after death. It is said that in the constellation of the Pleiades the star of Merope appears more dim and obscure than the rest, because she, as the poets observe, married a mortal, while her sisters married some of the gods or their descendants.