Circean
形容词 adj.
英文释义
形容词 adj.
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Pertaining to Circe, the Greek goddess, who first charmed her victims and then changed them into animals; hence, alluring but dangerous or degrading.
— Is it then surprizing […] that an empty mind should be employed only to vary the pleasures, which emasculated her circean court?
词源
From Latin Circaeus + -an. By surface analysis, Circe + -ean.
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