Graiae : three daughters of Phorcys & Ceto, & sisters of the Gorgons, born grey-haired from birth with only one eye & one tooth between them. Perseus contrived to steal their eye & made them tell him the way to the Gorgons; in another account, he threw away the eye & left them blind & unable to help the Gorgons.
... the northern snows Illimitable I have trod, where Nature Is awed to silence, chilled to rigid whiteness; I have entered caverns dim where death was born: And I have taken from the dim-dwelling Graiae Their wondrous eye that sees the past and future: And I have slain the Gorgon, dire Medusa, Her head that turns the living man to stone Locking into my wallet: last, today, In Syria by the loud ...
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