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Amazons female warriors cut or burnt off their right breasts to prevent interference when drawing the bow. [Gk. Myth.: Brewer Dictionary, 29] See : Mutilation Amazons race of female warriors. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 19] See : War |
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| There is the country of the Amazons, and the country of the dwarfs, and the country of the fair but evil women who slay with beholding, like the basilisk. When I was in Phrygia I saw much horsemen, the people of Otreus and of Mygdon, who were camping upon the banks of the river Sangarius; I was their ally, and with them when the Amazons, peers of men, came up against them, but even they were not so many as the Achaeans. Tess, between the Amazons and the farmer like a bird caught in a clap-net, returned no answer, continuing to pull the straw. |
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