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Cacus

A famous robber, represented as three-headed, and vomiting flames. He lived in Italy, and was strangled by Hercules. Sancho Panza says of the Lord Rinaldô and his friends, “They are greater thieves than Cacus.” (Don Quixote.)

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