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MYCONUS

Volume 15 · 41 words · 1842 Edition

in Ancient Geography, one of the islands called Cyclades, near Delos, under which the last of the centaurs slain by Hercules are feigned to lie buried. Hence the proverb, Omnia sub umum Myconum congerere, applied to an injudicious or unnatural affiance.