Queen of the Amʹazons, who went with 300 women to meet Alexander the Great, under the hope of raising a race of Alexanders.
“This was no Thalestris from the fields, but a quiet domestic character from the fireside.”—C. Brontë’s Shirley, chap. xxviii.
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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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