Triton

Son of Neptune, represented as a fish with a human head. It is this sea-god that makes the roaring of the ocean by blowing through his shell.

“Hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn [hear the sea roar].”

Wordsworth.

A Triton among the minnows. The sun among inferior lights. Luna inter minores ignes.

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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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