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Promeʹthean Fire

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The vital principle; the fire with which Prometheus quickened into life his clay images. (See Prometheus.)

“I know not where is that Promethean heat

That can thy life relume.”


 

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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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