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Webster 1913 Edition
Pandora
Pan-do′ra
,p
rop.
Noun.
[L., fr. Gr.
Πανδώρα
; πᾶς
, πᾶν
, all + δῶρον
a gift.] 1.
(Class. Myth.)
A beautiful woman (all-gifted), whom
Jupiter
caused Vulcan
to make out of clay in order to punish the human race, because Prometheus
had stolen the fire from heaven. Jupiter
gave Pandora
a box containing all human ills, which, when the box was opened, escaped and spread over the earth. Hope alone remained in the box. Another version makes the box contain all the blessings of the gods, which were lost to men when Pandora opened it. 2.
(Zool.)
A genus of marine bivalves, in which one valve is flat, the other convex.