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Polyphemus

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

In Homeric legend a son of Neptune, the most celebrated of the Cyclops, a huge monster with one eye, who dwelt in Sicily in a cave near Ætna, and whose eye, after making him drunk, Ulysses burnt out, lest he should circumvent him and devour him, as he had done some of his companions.

Bibliography Information
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Polyphemus'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​p/polyphemus.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.