“Lest Gorgon, rising from the infernal lakes,
With horrors armed, and curls of hissing snakes,
Should fix me, stiffened at the monstrous sight,
A stony image in eternal night.”
Pope.
“Medusa with Gorgonian terror guards
The ford.”
Milton.
“Remove that horrid monster, and take hence
Medusa’s petrifying countenance.”
Addison.
Megaera (Meg′aera). One of the three Furies—Greek goddesses of vengeance.
Megale (Meg′ale). A Greek name of Juno, meaning great.
Melicerta (Melicer′ta), see Palaemon.
Mellona (Mello′na). One of the rural divinities, the goddess of bees.
Melpomene (Melpom′ene). One of the nine Muses, the goddess of tragedy.
Memnon (Mem′non), son of Tithonus and of Eos, who after the death of Hector brought the Aethiopians to the assistance of Priam in the war against Troy.
Memory, see Mnemosyne.