Graeae

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Menander, Monostichoi, 280

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

Graeae: ārum, f., = Γραῖαι (old women),
I daughters of Phorcus (hence Phorcydes) and Ceto, sisters and guardians of the Gorgons, gray-haired from their birth, having but one eye and one tooth among them, Hyg. praef. p. 7 Munck.