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Webster 1913 Edition

Melpomene

Mel-pom′e-ne

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Noun.

[L., fr. Gr. [GREEK], lit., the songstress, fr. [GREEK], [GREEK], to sing.]

1.

(Class. Myth.)

The Muse of tragedy.

2.

(Astron.)

The eighteenth asteroid.