Cerebus Et Al.
Sir, —As a devoted reader of your education page, may I be permitted to add a little further confusion to its columns. In one of his more lyrical flights, a contributor likens the gloom that encompasses departmental blackboards to the interior of the kennel of Cerebus (sic). Dog fanciers will be interested to learn that this little-known classical breed was by Erebus out of Cerberus. Erebus was fathered by Chaos, and Darkness was his brother. It might well be that your contributor had in mind another classical character, Cerebus the Seadog, an old salt who, before retirement with a fractured coccyx, for years stroked a quinquereme on the Nineveh run.—Yours, etc., A.G. March 3, 1966. [The author of the article, J. F. Williams, regrets his slip. “Cerberus” was intended.]
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 31002, 7 March 1966, Page 14
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132Cerebus Et Al. Press, Volume CV, Issue 31002, 7 March 1966, Page 14
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