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Lælaps

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A very powerful dog given by Diana to Procris; Procris gave it to Cephʹalos. While pursuing a wild boar it was metamorphosed into a stone. (See Dogs, Actæon’s fifty dogs.)

 

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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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