Orpheus
['ɔ:fiəs;-fjus]
Definition
(noun.) (Greek mythology) a great musician; when his wife Eurydice died he went to Hades to get her back but failed.
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Definition
(n.) The famous mythic Thracian poet, son of the Muse Calliope, and husband of Eurydice. He is reputed to have had power to entrance beasts and inanimate objects by the music of his lyre.
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Examples
- They abounded in China, in India, and in Egypt before the lyre of Apollo was invented, or the charming harp of Orpheus was conceived. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- You, Crispin, are Orpheus. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- O for the lyre of some Orpheus, to constrain, with touch of melodious strings, these mad masses into Order! H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The ancient mysteries of Demeter and Orpheus, the mysteries of the Mediterranean race, revived and made a sort of _theocrasia_ with these new cults. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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