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A sorceress, who could bring the moon from heaven. Alluded to by Horace. (Epodes, v.)
“Your ancient conjurors were wont
To make her [the moon] from her sphere dismount,
And to their incantations stoop.”
Butler: Hudibras, part ii. 3.
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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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