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"And ready-witted Prometheus he bound with inextricable bonds, cruel chains, and drove a shaft through his middle, and set on him a long-winged eagle, which used to eat his immortal liver; but by night the liver grew as much again everyway as the long-winged bird devoured in the whole day."-- Theogony by Hesiod, Hugh G. Evelyn-White translation


The winged dog of Zeus, the tawny eagle,
Shall make thy flesh but a great rag to tear.
To ravin piecemeal, constant to his hour,
A guest unbidden, steadfast all day long.
Gorging thy liver, banquet black and rich.

--Prometheus Bound, Edwyn Bevan translation

True and False Griffins from John Ruskin's Modern Painters (Part IV. Of Many Things), first published in 1856.
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True and False Griffins from John Ruskin's Modern Painters (Part IV. Of Many Things), first published in 1856.

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  1. Any of several large carnivorous birds in the family Accipitridae, having a powerful hooked bill and keen vision.

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