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orpheus

Or.phe.us \'o.r-fe--*s, -.fyu:s\ n [L, fr. Gk] : a musician held in Greek 
   legend to have descended to Hades after the dea th of his wife Eurydice and 
   by his music to have obtained her release on condition that he not look 
   back at her until reaching the upper world