← Table of contents
Milton

Note fair Ligea’s golden comb — MILTON’S MINOR POEMS.

Reading edition

880. And fair Ligea’s golden comb. Ligea was probably also a siren. In Virgil, Georgics IV 336, we find a nymph of this name, spinning wool with other nymphs, “their bright locks floating over their snowy necks.” The name Ligea means shrill-voiced.

Explore with AITake your curiosity a little further.

Reading settings