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Naples; so called from Parthenopē, the siren, who threw herself into the sea out of love for Ulysses, and was cast up on the bay of Naples.
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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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