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in Greek mythology, is the setting sun with which the moon is in love. Endymʹion was condemned to endless sleep and everlasting youth, and Seleʹnē kisses him every night on the Latmian hills.
“The moon sleeps with Endymion,
And would not be awaked.”
Shakespeare: Merchant of Venice, v. 1.
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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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