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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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... over. As he flew on by the Lybian coast he heard a sound of wailing, and beheld a beautiful maiden chained by her hands and feet to a rock. He asked what had led her to this sad plight, and she answered that she was Andromeda, the daughter of Cepheus and Cassiopeia, king and queen of Ethiopia, and that her mother had foolishly boasted that she was fairer than the Nereids, the fifty nymphs who are the spirits of the waves. Neptune was so much displeased that he sent a flood to overflow the land, and ...
— Aunt Charlotte's Stories of Greek History • Charlotte M. Yonge

... eternal powers grant maids society Falsely to swear; their beauty hath some deity. By her eyes, I remember, late she swore, And by mine eyes, and mine were pained sore. Say gods: if she unpunished you deceive, For other faults why do I loss receive. But did you not so envy[363] Cepheus' daughter, For her ill-beauteous mother judged to slaughter. 'Tis not enough, she shakes your record off, And, unrevenged, mocked gods with me doth scoff. 20 But by my pain to purge her perjuries, Cozened, I am the cozener's sacrifice. God is a name, no substance, feared in vain, ...
— The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3) • Christopher Marlowe

... Pollux had climbed about half-way from the horizon to the meridian. Regulus had just risen upon the ecliptic. The Virgin still lingered below the horizon. Fomalhaut was half-way to the meridian in the Southwest; and to the Northwest were the brilliant constellations, Perseus, Cepheus, Cassiopeia, and Andromeda; while the Pleiades had just ...
— Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry • Albert Pike



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