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Seven Sleepers
Seven Sleepers pl n (European Myth & Legend) seven Christian youths from Ephesus who were walled up in a cave by the Emperor Decius in 250 ad and, according to legend, slept for 187 years Seven Sleepers
Seven Sleepersyouths who fled Decian persecution; slept for more than 200 years. [Christian and Muslim Tradition: Benét, 918]See: Sleep |