Bellerophonic
English
Etymology
Bellerophon + -ic
Adjective
Bellerophonic (comparative more Bellerophonic, superlative most Bellerophonic)
- Of or relating to Bellerophon, a hero of Greek mythology, who was killed on the instructions of a letter given to him to deliver by the jealous Proteus.
- 1988, Marianne Shapiro, The Poetics of Ariosto (page 97)
- This event is counterbalanced by Astolfo's encounter with the Amazons, which also constitutes an explicitly Bellerophonic anecdote.
- 1988, Marianne Shapiro, The Poetics of Ariosto (page 97)