"Flying dragon" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... being drawn by winged dragons, is based upon the equivocal meaning of a Phoenician word, which signified either 'a winged dragon,' or 'a ship fastened with iron nails or bolts.' Philochorus, however, as cited by Eusebius, says that his ship was called a flying dragon, from its carrying the figure of a dragon on its prow. We learn from a fragment of Stobaeus, that Erectheus, when engaged in a war against the Eleusinians, was told by the oracle that he would be victorious, if he sacrificed his daughter ...
— The Metamorphoses of Ovid - Vol. I, Books I-VII • Publius Ovidius Naso |
