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  • proper noun Greek mythology The mythical island said to be the home of Circe.

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Examples

  • Aeaea, and from the ship they cast hawsers to the shore near at hand.

    The Argonautica 2008

  • One of these was Circe, swine-goddess of Aeaea, who could turn men into sacrificial pigs.

    Womb - That from Which We Come, That to Which We Go Jan 2008

  • One of these was Circe, swine-goddess of Aeaea, who could turn men into sacrificial pigs.

    Archive 2008-05-01 Jan 2008

  • After visiting the Laestrygones, a man-eating people, who devoured all the fleet except one ship's company, the remainder reached Aeaea, the island where lived the dread goddess Circe.

    Authors of Greece T. W. Lumb

  • Aeaea, and from the ship they cast hawsers to the shore near at hand.

    The Argonautica Apollonius Rhodius

  • Aeaea, 'the dwelling-place of Circe in Homer, with the promontory of Circeii in Italy.

    The Aeneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor 70 BC-19 BC Virgil 1902

  • There in Aeaea the voyagers stayed a year before Circe would let them go.

    Old Greek Folk Stories Told Anew Josephine Preston Peabody 1898

  • So the king and his men set out from the island of Aeaea.

    Old Greek Folk Stories Told Anew Josephine Preston Peabody 1898

  • On went the single ship till it came to the island of Aeaea, where Circe, the dreadful daughter of the Sun, dwelt.

    The Adventures of Ulysses Charles Lamb 1804

  • The bark moved of itself without the help of any oar, and soon brought him out of the regions of death into the cheerful quarters of the living, and to the island of Aeaea, whence he had set forth.

    The Adventures of Ulysses Charles Lamb 1804

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