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Word: acteon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Acteon, the huntsman, breaks from a coppice with two wolfish dogs, one leaping from his thigh, one flying from under his lifted knee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arts: Manship | 2/16/1925 | See Source »

Diana (an enlargement of an early work, cast in colored terra-cotta) is swifter far than Acteon, for all his speed-outstripping dogs. The wind bends her scarf; her bow is drawn; she looks back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arts: Manship | 2/16/1925 | See Source »

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