Tantalus (n.)
king of Sipylos in Lydia, punished in the Underworld for his crimes; he sits in a pool which recedes when he bends to drink, and the grapes over his head elude his grasp
Luc.858[Lucrece to herself, of an aged man] like still-pining Tantalus he sits
Ven.599[of Venus] worse than Tantalus' is her annoy
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