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Definition of Sirens
1. siren [n] - See also: siren
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sirens
Literary usage of Sirens
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Age of Fable; Or, Beauties of Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch, John Loughran Scott (1898)
"Circe aided their sirens f E. Barrios'). departure, and instructed them how to
pass safely by the coast of the sirens. The sirens were sea-nymphs who had ..."
2. Greek and Roman [mythology] by William Sherwood Fox (1916)
"By nature the sirens ("Bewitching Ones") were akin to the Keres and Erinyes ...
Kirke thus describes the sirens to Odysseus: "To the sirens first shalt thou ..."
3. The Principles of Greek Art by Percy Gardner (1914)
"The sirens are not said to be unlike ordinary women in form. Only Scylla is
frankly spoken of as monstrous, as having twelve feet and six heads, as being, ..."
4. A Grammar of Greek Art by Percy Gardner (1905)
"The sirens are not said to be unlike ordinary women in form. Only Scylla is
frankly spoken of as monstrous, as having twelve feet and six heads, as being, ..."
5. The Odyssey by Homer (1905)
"BOOK TWELFTH THE sirens; SCYLLA AND CHARYBDIS; THE OXEN OF THE SUN " BUT when
our ship, behind her leaving far The Ocean-current and the river-bar, ..."
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