Tryʹgon.

A poisonous fish. It is said that Teleʹgonos, son of Ulysses by Circē, coming to Ithʹaca to see his father was denied admission by the servants; whereupon a quarrel ensued, and his father, coming out to see what was the matter, was accidentally struck with his son’s arrow, pointed with the bone of a trygon, and died.

“The lord of Ithaca

Struck by the poisonous trygon’s bone, expired.”


West: Triumphs of the Gout (Lucian).

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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