"Megaera" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the Sire, from Turnus to repel Juturna's aid, now ponders in his mind. Two fiends there are, called Furies. Night with fell Megaera bore them at one birth, and twined Their serpent spires, and winged them like the wind. These at Jove's threshold, and beside his throne Await his summons, to afflict mankind, When death or pestilence the Sire sends down, Or ...
— The Aeneid of Virgil - Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor • Virgil
... the fight, and plainly showed her what do ye call them. The frightened devil, seeing the enormous solution of the continuity in all its dimensions, blessed himself, and cried out, Mahon, Demiourgon, Megaera, Alecto, Persephone! 'slife, catch me here when he comes! I am gone! 'sdeath, what a gash! ...
— Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete. • Francois Rabelais
... 'The temper of a Megaera,' said Merton, admitting to himself that the word was not, though mythological, what ...
— The Disentanglers • Andrew Lang |
