Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Cir’ce (2 syl.).

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Circle of Ul’loa.

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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.

Cir’ce (2 syl.).

A sorceress. She lived in the island of Ææa. When Ulysses landed there, Circë turned his companions into swine, but Ulysses resisted this metamorphose by virtue of a herb called moly, given him by Mereury.

“Who knows not Circe,

The daughter of the Sun, whose charmëd cup

Whoever tasted lost his upright shape,

And downward fell into a grovelling swine?”

Milton: Comus, 50–53.

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Circle of Ul’loa.

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