Brewer's: Venus of Milo

or Melos. The statue, with three of Hermes, was discovered in 1820 by Admiral Dumont in Milo or Melos, one of the Greek islands, whence its name. It now stands in the Louvre.

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