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Greek god depicted as lifting a mask off his face
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momus
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Momus (; Momos ) was in Greek mythology the personification of satire and mockery, two stories about whom figure among Aesop’s Fables . During the Renaissance , several literary works used him as a mouthpiece for their criticism of tyranny, while others ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"humorously disagreeable person," 1560s, from Latin, from Greek Momos , nme of the god of ridicule and sarcasm (Greek momos , literally "blame, ridicule, disgrace," of unknown origin); also used in English as personification of fault-finding and captious ...
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Momus, south of the Town of Tarzak, lies the village of Sina nestled between the Fake Foot river delta and the glittering expanses of the Sea of Baraboo, named in honor of the ship that stranded the original circus on Momus two centuries before.
Every true critic is a hero born, descending in a direct line from a celestial stem by Momus and Hybris, who begat Zoilus, who begat Tigellius, who begat Etcaetera the Elder.