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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[L., from Gr. [GREEK], lit., the Steadfast, Resolute, the son of

Tithonus

and

Aurora

, and king of the Ethiopians, killed by

Achilles

(Antiq.)

A celebrated Egyptian statue near Thebes, said to have the property of emitting a harplike sound at sunrise.