/ · 1894 Brewer’s · P · Promethean Unguent (The)
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Made from a herb on which some of the blood of Promētheus (3 syl.) had fallen. Medēa gave Jason some of this unguent, which rendered his body proof against fire and warlike instruments.
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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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