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A one-eyed people of Scythia, who adorned their hair with gold. They were constantly at war with the gryphons who guarded the gold mines.
“As when a gryphon, through the wilderness …
Pursues the Arimaspian, who by stealth
Had from his wakeful custody purloined
The guarded gold.”
Milton: Paradise Lost, ii. 943–6.
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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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