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A floating island ultimately made fast to the bottom of the sea by Poseiʹdon (Neptune). Apollo having become possessor of it by exchange, made it his favourite retreat. It is one of the Cyclades.
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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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