Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—H

Hesione

(4 syl.). Daughter of Laomedon, King of Troy, exposed to a sea-monster, but rescued by Hercules. (See Andromeda.)

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