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Myrmidons

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Myrmidons
originally ants, turned into human beings by Zeus to populate the island of Oenone. [Gk. Myth.: Benét, 697]


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Whether myrmidons of Justice, specially sent down from London, would be lying in ambush behind the gate?
Mrs Jarley's back being then towards him, the military gentleman shook his forefinger as a sign that her myrmidons were not to apprise her of his presence, and stealing up close behind her, tapped her on the neck, and cried playfully
Go home, then, with your ships and comrades to lord it over the Myrmidons.
 
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