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1 Alcyone
Alcyŏnē ( Halc-), ēs, f., = Alkuonê, a daughter of Æolus, who, from love to her husband Ceyx, who had suffered shipwreck, threw herself into the sea and was changed into a kingfisher (alkuôn;v. alcedo),
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