Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—P

Parthenope

(4 syl.). Naples; so called from Parthenope, the siren, who threw herself into the sea out of love for Ulysses, and was cast up on the bay of Naples.

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