Celaeno
Americannoun
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Classical Mythology. a Pleiad.
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Astronomy. one of the six visible stars of the Pleiades.
noun
Example Sentences
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“I know what Celaeno wants,” she went on.
From "Mary Poppins" by P. L. Travers
Sir Home offered me the command of the Celaeno, a fine frigate, the captain of which had died suddenly.
From Hair-Breadth Escapes The Adventures of Three Boys in South Africa by Adams, H.C.
Not Helenus the prophet, though he counselled of many a terror, not boding Celaeno foretold me of this grief.
From The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil
Landing in the Strophades, they unwittingly wrong the Harpies, whose queen Celaeno thereupon threatens them with a portentous famine.
From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Taylor, Edward Fairfax
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