Perʹseus (2 syl.)

A bronze statue in the Loggia dei Lanzi, at Florence. The best work of Benvenuto Cellini (1500–1562).

Perseusʹ flying horse. A ship.

“Perseus conquered the head of Meduʹsa, and did make Pegʹase, the most swift ship, which he always calls Perseusʹ flying horse.”—Destruction of Troy.

“The strong-ribbed bark through liquid mountains cut …

Like Perseusʹ horse.”

Shakespeare: Troilus and Cressida, i. 3.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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