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 Titan’s War with Jove (The).Titho’nus. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Titan’ia.
 
Wife of O’beron, king of the fairies. According to the belief in Shakespeare’s age, fairies were the same as the classic nymphs, the attendants of Diana. The queen of the fairies was therefore Diana herself, called Titania by Ovid (Metamorphoses, iii. 173). (Keightley: Fairy Mythology.)   1
 


 Titan’s War with Jove (The).Titho’nus. 

 
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