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The Chimaera

Chimaera

also: Chimaera

A fire-breathing monster of myth—lion in front, she-goat in the middle, serpent behind; Lucretius uses it to prove that no creature of incompatible natures can exist.

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On the Nature of Things poetry · 2 mentions

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