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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[L., fr. Gr. [GREEK], lit., the songstress, fr. [GREEK], [GREEK], to sing.]

(Class. Myth.)

The Muse of tragedy.

(Astron.)

The eighteenth asteroid.

See also: Melpomene, Melpomené, and Melpômene

Melpómene f (European orthography)