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Arimaspians
A one-eyed people of Scythia, who adorned their hair with
gold. They were constantly at war with the gryphons who guarded the
gold mines.
As when a gryphon, through the wilderness ...
Pursues the Arimaspian, who by stealth
Had from his wakeful custody purloined
The guarded gold.
Milton: Paradise Lost, ii. 943.6)
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