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Cepheus

noun
1.
(Greek mythology) king of Ethiopia and husband of Cassiopeia.
2.
A faint constellation in the northern hemisphere near Cassiopeia and the pole star.





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... was sent by Polydectes to fetch the head of Medusa, one of the Gorgons. This dangerous task he accomplished with the help of Apollo and Minerva, and on his way home he rescued Andromeda, daughter of Cepheus, from a sea-monster. Perseus then married Andromeda, and lived some time in the country of Cepheus. At length he returned to Serphos, and turned Polydectes to stone by showing him the Gorgon's head; ...
— Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles - A First Latin Reader • John Kirtland, ed.


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