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British Museum

Marble statue of a nereid, from the Nereid Monument. Lycian, from Xanthos (modern Günük), south-western Turkey, c. 390–380 BC.

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Nereid 2Line breaks: Ner¦eid

Pronunciation: /ˈnɪərɪɪd/ 

1Greek Mythology Any of the sea nymphs, daughters of Nereus. They include Thetis, mother of Achilles.

2Astronomy A satellite of Neptune, the furthest from the planet, discovered in 1949. It has an irregularshape (with a diameter of about 340 km) and aneccentric orbit.

tux

(tŭks)
n. Informal
A tuxedo.n. - 男士無尾半正式晚禮服

Styx (stĭks)


n. Greek Mythology
The river across which the souls of the dead are ferried, one of the five rivers in Hades.

[Latin, from Greek Stux.]

In Greek mythology, a river of the underworld. The name comes from a Greek word that denotes both hatred and extreme cold, and it expresses loathing of death. In the epics of Homer, the gods swore by the water of Styx as their most binding oath. Hesiod personified Styx as the daughter of Oceanus and the mother of Emulation, Victory, Power, and Might. The ancients believed that its water was poisonous and would dissolve any vessel except one made of the hoof of a horse or an ass.

[名]((the 〜))《ギリシャ神話》ステュクス川：三途(さんず)の川, よみの国の川. ⇒STYGIAN[形]1

(as) black as Styx
まっ 暗やみの

cross the Styx
三途の 川を渡る, 死ぬ.





售貨員在你耳邊輕巧地唱著海妖賽倫（Siren）的誘惑之歌─


Si·ren (sī'rən)
n.

1. Greek Mythology. One of a group of sea nymphs who by their sweet singing lured mariners to destruction on the rocks surrounding their island.
2. siren A woman regarded as seductive and beautiful.

[Middle English serein, from Old French sereine. See siren.]

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Tartarean (tahr-TAR-ee-uhn)

adjective
Hellish; infernal.

Etymology
From Latin tartareus, from Greek tartareios, from Tartaros. In Greek mythology, Tartarus was the place in Hades reserved for punishing the worst.

Usage
"The hatch, removed from the top of the works, now afforded a wide hearth in front of them. Standing on this were the Tartarean shapes of the pagan harpooneers, always the whaleship's stokers." — Herman Melville; Moby Dick: Or, the Whale; Hendricks House; 1952.
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"The late-afternoon skies over lower downtown Denver were Stygian dark and Tartarean dreary, as had been the Rockies in the series with the omnipotent Yankees, when Todd Zeile approached the plate in the culmination of the 10th inning, and there was a fulmination and fulguration of thunder and lightning." — Woody Paige; A Ruthian Victory For the Locals; The Denver Post; Jun 21, 2002.