Fiction, II

305. Meddle (med'l). In Dion Boucicault's comedy "London A urance," a pettifogging lawyer. Medea (me-de'). [Gr. Μήδεια.] In Greek legend, a sorcere , daughter of Æetes, king of the Colchians, and wife of Jason. When Jason came with the Argonauts (see Jason ) to obtain the Golden Fleece, Medea aided him by her magic arts, and escaped with him to Corinth, where, ten years later, she murdered Creusa or Glauce, daughter of King Creon, for whom Jason had determined to abandon her. From Corinth she fled to Athens, and married Ægeus (father of These us), by whom she had a son, Medus, regarded by the Greeks as the ancestor of the Medes. Having plotted against the life of These us, she was obliged to flee, and finally returned to Colchis. Medea. 1. A play by Euripi des. Seethe extract.