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Stymphalian, a. Myth.|stɪmˈfeɪlɪən|
[f. L. Stymphali-us (f. Stymphalus or -um, a. Gr. στύµϕαλος) + -an.]
Of or belonging to Stymphalus, a district in Arcadia haunted by a species of odious birds of prey, the destruction of which was the sixth of the ‘labours’ of Hercules.
1653H. Cogan tr. Hist. Diod. Sic. iv. xiii. 129 He [sc. Hercules] chaced away the Birds which infested all the Countrey about the Stymphalian Fen. 1704Swift T. Tub iii. 78 A sort of dangerous Fowl, who have a perverse Inclination, to plunder the best Branches of the Tree of Knowledge, like those Stymphalian Birds that eat up the Fruit. 1888A. H. Smith Catal. Engr. Gems Brit. Mus. 152 Herakles kneeling to right, and drawing bow at Stymphalian birds (two) flying before him.
So Stymphalid a. [L. Stymphalid-, -is, Gr. στυµϕαλιδ-, στυµϕαλίς fem. adj.] = Stymphalian a.; also n., a Stymphalian bird. † ˈStymphalist (see quot. 1595).
1560B. Googe tr. Palingenius' Zodiac iii. (1561) F vj b, He hath expelde the Stymphalides by force of valeant bowe. 1584Hudson Du Bartas' Judith v. (1608) 74 Ye Stymphalids, who with your youth vptaks, You rauens that from vs our riches raks. 1595‘Dando & Rust’ Maroccus Extat. (Percy Soc.) 16 This stymphalist is hee, that with five or sixe tenements, and the retinue thereunto belonging, infectes the aire with stench, and poisons that parish. 1620Sylvester Tobacco Battered 775 Our Alcides..Hath, as with Arrowes, from His sacred Sides, All-ready chac't These stinking Stymphalides. 1831Keightley Mythol. ii. iv. (1854) 316 His sixth task was to drive away the Stymphalid birds. |