/ · 1894 Brewer’s · S · Saturn or Kronos [Time]
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devoured all his children except Jupiter, Neptune, and Pluto. Jupiter means air, Neptune water, and Pluto the grave. These Time cannot consume.
Saturn is a very evil planet to be born under. “The children of the sayd Saturne shall be great jangeleres and chyders … and they will never forgyve tyll they be revenged of theyr quarell.” (Compost of Ptholomeus.)
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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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