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Merope

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Mer·o·pe  (mr-p)
n.
1. Greek Mythology One of the Pleiades, who hid her face in shame after marrying a mortal.
2. One of the six stars in the Pleiades cluster, faintly visible to the unaided eye.


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whose stars are these: -- `Lovely Teygata, and dark-faced Electra, and Alcyone, and bright Asterope, and Celaeno, and Maia, and Merope, whom glorious Atlas begot.
Collection Of Hesiod, Homer and Homerica by Homer View in context
The last case is the best, as when in the Cresphontes Merope is about to slay her son, but, recognising who he is, spares his life.
The Poetics of Aristotle by Aristotle View in context
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