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Mormolyce

(Μορμολύκη, Μορμολυκεῖον), or MORMOLYCEION, the same phantom or bugbear as Mormo, and also used for the same purpose. (Philostr. V'it. Apollon. 4.25; Menandr. Reliq. p. 145, ed. Meineke; Aristoph. Thesin. 417 Strab. i. p.19; Stob. Ecloq. p. 1010.)

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.