Menippe
[ muh-nip-ee ]
/ məˈnɪp i /
noun Classical Mythology.
a daughter of Orion who, with her sister Metioche, offered herself as a sacrifice to end a plague in Boeotia.
Example sentences from the Web for menippe
On Menippe I knew "g" must equal about one twentieth of a foot, and "r" 31,680 feet.
Other Worlds |Garrett P. ServissBy some his mother was said to have been Menippe; by others Polymnia.
This is No. 188, Menippe, whose elements are still somewhat uncertain.
The Asteroids |Daniel KirkwoodMenippe, the one hundred and eighty-eighth, was also lost soon after its discovery in 1878.
The Asteroids |Daniel Kirkwood