Medusa

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

Mĕdūsa: ae, f., = Μέδουσα,
I daughter of Phorcus; she captivated Neptune with her golden hair, and became by him the mother of Pegasus. Minerva, as a punishment, turned her hair into serpents, and gave to her eyes an enchanted power of converting everything they looked upon to stone. Perseus, provided with the shield of Pallas, slew her, and carried off her head, while from the blood that dropped from it serpents sprung, Ov. M. 4, 654; 793; Luc. 9, 626.—Hence,
II Mĕdūsaeus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Medusa, Medusan (poet.): monstrum, Ov. M. 10, 22: equus, i. e. Pegasus, id. F. 5, 8; cf. praepes, i. e. Pegasus, id. M. 5, 257: fons, i. e. the fount Hippocrene, struck open by a blow of the hoof of Pegasus, id. ib. 5, 312.

Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)

Mĕdūsa,¹³ æ, f. (Μέδουσα), Méduse [une des Gorgones : Ov. M. 4, 655 ; Luc. 9, 626 || -sæus, a, um, de Méduse : Ov. M. 10, 22 ; F. 5, 8.

Latin > German (Georges)

Medūsa, ae, f. (Μέδουσα), Tochter des Phorkus, Mutter des Pegasus von Neptun, die furchtbarste der Gorgonen (s. 1. Gorgōdas Nähere), Ov. met. 4, 655 u. 781. Lucan. 8, 626. – Dav. Medūsaeus, a, um, medusäisch, equus od. praepes, Pegasus, Ov.: fons, die (durch den Huf des Pegasus entstandene) Quelle Hippokrene, Ov.: os, coma, Ov.: chelydri, Sil.

Wikipedia EN

In Greek mythology, Medusa (/mɪˈdjuːzə, -sə/; Ancient Greek: Μέδουσα "guardian, protectress") also called Gorgo, was one of the three monstrous Gorgons, generally described as winged human females with living venomous snakes in place of hair. Those who gazed into her eyes would turn to stone. Most sources describe her as the daughter of Phorcys and Ceto, although the author Hyginus makes her the daughter of Gorgon and Ceto.

Medusa was beheaded by the Greek hero Perseus, who thereafter used her head, which retained its ability to turn onlookers to stone, as a weapon until he gave it to the goddess Athena to place on her shield. In classical antiquity the image of the head of Medusa appeared in the evil-averting device known as the Gorgoneion.

According to Hesiod and Aeschylus, she lived and died on an island named Sarpedon, somewhere near Cisthene. The 2nd-century BC novelist Dionysios Skytobrachion puts her somewhere in Libya, where Herodotus had said the Berbers originated her myth, as part of their religion.

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