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Cytherea   /sˌɪθərˈiə/   Listen
Cytherea

noun
1.
Goddess of love and beauty and daughter of Zeus in ancient mythology; identified with Roman Venus.  Synonym: Aphrodite.





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"Cytherea" Quotes from Famous Books



... rhymed "ear" to "Cytherea," And Morris "dawn" to "morn," A worse example, it is clear, By Oxford Dons is "shorn." G-y, of Magdalen, goes beyond These puny Cockneys far, And to "Magrath" rhymes—Muse despond! - ...
— New Collected Rhymes • Andrew Lang
... closely; and you perceive that the features are in perfect harmony with each other, and harmonise with the complexion. You behold a face, such as the Athenian fancy has elaborated into an almost living reality in the goddess Cytherea. ...
— The Wild Huntress - Love in the Wilderness • Mayne Reid
... know we are the natural Hottentot, and you are the missionaries who are to keep from degenerating; we are the clumsy, old, blind Vulcan, and you the fair Cytherea, the bearers of the magic cestus, and therefore it is to you that this head ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 93, July, 1865 • Various


Words linked to "Cytherea" :   Aphrodite, Greek deity


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