lamia

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But Nicander the Colophonian, in his essay on Dialects, says that the carcharias is also called the lamias and the squill.

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The Seventy, in Isaiah, translate the Hebrew lilith by lamia.

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There, on one of the broadest tombstones she saw sitting a circle of lamias.

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The word lamiae signified, walking spirits, which, according to the vulgar notion, devoured men; this makes the spirit of the sarcasm against the tax-gatherers.

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The lamia ran as fast as she could after them, to catch them up, and when she came to a field where people were working she asked them: 'Have you seen anyone pass this way?'

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