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Pyrrha

Sæculum Pyrrhæ. The Flood. Pyrrha was the wife of Deucalion (Horace: 1 Odes, ii. 6). So much rain has fallen, it looks as if the days of Pyrrha were about to return.

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