Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—G

Galathe

(3 syl.). Hector's horse.

There is a thousand Hectors in the field;
Now here he fights on Galathe his horse,
And there lacks work.

Shakespeare: Troilus and Cressida, v. 5.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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