Cape di Faro, a promontory of Sicily. (Virgil: Æneid, iii. 6, 7.)
“As when the force
Of subterranean wind transports a hill
Torn from Pelorus.”
Milton: Paradise Lost, bk. i. 232.
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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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