A spirit of the air and guardian of innocence. He was enslaved
to the witch Sycorax, who overtasked him; and in punishment for
not doing what was beyond his power, shut him up in a pine-rift
for twelve years. On the death of Sycorax, Ariel became the
slave of Caliban, who tortured him most cruelly. Prospero
liberated him from the pine-rift, and the grateful fairy served
him for sixteen years, when he was set The sylph that watched
over Belinda. (Pope: Rape of the Lock, i.) One of the angels
cast out of heaven. The word means lion of God. (Milton:
Paradise Lost, book vi. 371.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and
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