Brewer's: Promethean Unguent

(The). Made from a herb on which some of the blood of Prometheus (3syl.) had fallen. Medea gave Jason some of this unguent, which rendered his body proof against fire and warlike instruments.

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