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One of the Furies, whose head was covered with snakes.
“Then like Alecto, terrible to view,
Or like Medusa, the Circassian grew.”
Hoole: Jerusalem Delivered, b. vi.
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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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