Bellerophonic
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Bellerophon + -ic
Adjective[edit]
Bellerophonic (comparative more Bellerophonic, superlative most Bellerophonic)
- Of or relating to Bellerophon, a hero of Greek mythology, who was killed on the instructions of a letter given to him to deliver by the jealous Proteus.
- 1988, Marianne Shapiro, The Poetics of Ariosto, page 97:
- This event is counterbalanced by Astolfo's encounter with the Amazons, which also constitutes an explicitly Bellerophonic anecdote.