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 Pel’ops.Pelos [mud]. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Pelo’rus.
 
Cape di Faro, a promontory of Sicily. (Virgil: Æneid, iii. 6, 7.)   1
       
“As when the force
Of subterranean wind transports a hill
Torn from Pelorus.”
       
Milton: Paradise Lost, bk. i. 232.
 


 Pel’ops.Pelos [mud]. 

 
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