ANDROM`EDA

ANDROM`EDA
   a beautiful Ethiopian princess exposed to a sea monster, which Perseus slew, receiving as his reward the hand of the maiden; she had been demanded by Neptune as a sacrifice to appease the Nereids for an insult offered them by her mother.

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. . 1907.

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