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Glaucus

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Glaucus

Genus of pelagic (open ocean) carnivorous gastropod molluscs found in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. They have long, slender, sluglike bodies, with three pairs of lateral outgrowths, and the heads are furnished with tentacles. They are greeny-blue in colour.

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Glaucus belongs to order Nudibranchia, subclass Opisthobranchia, class Gastropoda, phylum Mollusca.
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Epigram iii on Midas of Larissa was otherwise attributed to Cleobulus of Lindus, one of the Seven Sages; the address to Glaucus (xi) is purely Hesiodic; xiii, according to MM.
Collection Of Hesiod, Homer and Homerica by Homer View in context
Thus far, we have spoken the truth concerning her as she appears at present, but we must remember also that we have seen her only in a condition which may be compared to that of the sea-god Glaucus, whose original image can hardly be discerned because his natural members are broken off and crushed and damaged by the waves in all sorts of ways, and incrustations have grown over them of seaweed and shells and stones, so that he is more like some monster than he is to his own natural form.
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Sarpedon and Glaucus led the Lycians from their distant land, by the eddying waters of the Xanthus.
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