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Phlegra

Luxon, Thomas H., ed. The Milton Reading Room, http://www.dartmouth.edu/~milton, October, 2014.

In Ovid's Metamorphoses 10. 233, the giants battle the gods on the plain of Phlegra in Macedonia.
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