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Glaucus (of Bœotia)

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A fisherman who instructed Apollo in soothsaying. He jumped into the sea, and became a marine god. Milton alludes to him in his Comus (line 895):

“[By] old soothsaying Glaucusʹ spell.”

 

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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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Glass Breaker (A)
Glass-eye
Glass Houses
Glass Slipper (of Cinderella)
Glasse (Mrs. Hannah)
Glassite (A)
Glastonbury
Glaswegian
Glauber Salts
Glaucus (of Bœotia)
Glaucus (Another)
Glaucus Swop (A)
Glaymore
Glazier
Gleek
Gleichen (The Count de)
Gleipnir
Glencoe
Glendoveor
Glendower (Owen)

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