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Cephalus

[sef-uh-luhs]

noun

Classical Mythology.
  1. the husband of Procris.



-cephalus

combining form

  1. denoting a cephalic abnormality

    hydrocephalus

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of Cephalus1

New Latin -cephalus; see -cephalic
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Yes, but as old Cephalus once heard Sophocles say, the least of us know that love is a cruel and terrible master.

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Cephalus looking keenly around saw something move in the thicket ahead and threw the javelin.

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She was married very happily to Cephalus, a grandson of the King of the Winds, Aeolus; but they had been married only a few weeks when Cephalus was carried off by no less a personage than Aurora herself, the Goddess of the Dawn.

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This malicious suggestion drove Cephalus mad with jealousy.

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Procris had given Cephalus a javelin that never failed to strike what it was aimed at.

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