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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—H

Harpalice

(4 syl.). A Thracian virago, who liberated her father Harpalicos when he was taken prisoner by the Getae.

With such array Harpalice bestrode
Her Thracian courser.

Dryden.

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