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Cerberus |
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CerberusIn Greek mythology, the three-headed dog which guarded the entrance to Hades, the underworld. Some early representations endow him with 50 or 100 heads, and he is often depicted with a mane and serpent's tail.
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The porter in his lodge answers exactly to Cerberus in his den, and, like him, must be appeased by a sop before access can be gained to his master. And the anaemic Cerberus sized me up with so insolent an eye that I reached over and took him out of his chair. And while the three-headed Cerberus was fawning so lovingly on King Pluto, there was the dragon tail wagging against its will, and looking as cross and ill-natured as you can imagine, on its own separate account. |
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