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Specialty Expressions: HERO AND LEANDER

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Hero and LeanderLiteratureThe tale is that Hero, a priestess of Venus, fell in love with Leander, who swam across the Hellespont every night to visit her. One night he was drowned, and heart-broken Hero drowned herself in the same sea. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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