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The dragon devouring the companions of Cadmus [from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses' (III: 1-151)]; the monster bites the face of its victim and sinks its claws into the naked flesh; a severed head lies on the ground in the foreground; in the background at r, the same monster is speared by Cadmus, 1588 Engraving
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