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Volume 4 · 49 words · 1823 Edition

or Hippodamia, in fabulous history, the wife of Mynes king of Lynessa. After Achilles had taken that city, and killed her husband, she became his captive. That hero loved her tenderly; but Agamemnon taking her from him, she became the accidental cause of sad disorders in the Grecian army.