Brewer's: Alexandra

(in Orlando Furioso). Oronthea's daughter; the Amazon queen.

Alexandra

so Cassandra, daughter of Priam, is called. The two names are mere variants of each other.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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