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MEROPE , the name of several figures in See also:Greek See also:mythology. The most important of them are the following: (I) The daughter of Cypselius, See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of See also:Arcadia, and wife of Cresphontes, ruler of See also:Messenia. During an insurrection Cresphontes and two of his sons were murdered and the See also:throne seized by Polyphontes, who forced Merope to marry him. A third son, Aepytus, contrived to See also:- ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli
escape, and, subsequently returning to Messenia, put Polyphontes to See also:death and recovered his See also:father's See also:kingdom (See also:Apollodorus ii. 8, 5; See also:Pausanias iv. 3, 6). The fortunes of Merope' have furnished the subject of tragedies by See also:Euripides (Cresphontes, not extant), See also:Voltaire, See also:Maffei and See also:Matthew See also:Arnold. (2) The daughter of See also:Atlas and wife of See also:Sisyphus. She was one of the seven See also:Pleiades,, but remained invisible, hiding her See also:light for shame at having become the wife of a mortal (Apollodorus 9, 3; 10, r; See also:Ovid, See also:Fasti, iv. 175).
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