A stock name in heroic romance, which generally represents the fate of the world turning on the caprice of some beautiful Mandana or Statiʹra.
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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.