“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.
Meg′æra. One of the three Furies.