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  • She was the mother of Chimaera who breathed raging fire, a creature fearful, great, swift-footed and strong, who had three heads, one of a grim-eyed lion; in her hinderpart, a dragon; and in her middle, a goat, breathing forth a fearful blast of blazing fire.

    Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

  • She was the mother of Chimaera who breathed raging fire, a creature fearful, great, swift-footed and strong, who had three heads, one of a grim-eyed lion; in her hinderpart, a dragon; and in her middle, a goat, breathing forth

    Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica Hesiod

  • Then [b] rub the whole body somewhat with the palmes, the brest, back and belly gently, but the armes and legs with the hands, either with warm linnen: [c] next, the head is to be scrubbed fro {m} the forepart to the hinderpart very lightly.

    Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867

  • Iliad, Homer described the chimera as a creature who "breathed raging fire, a creature fearful, great, swift-footed and strong, who had 3 heads, one of a grim-eyed lion, in her hinderpart, a dragon; and in her middle, a goat."

    Minyanville 2009

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