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Euterpe   Listen
noun
Euterpe  n.  
1.
(Class. Myth.) The Muse who presided over music.
2.
(Bot.) A genus of palms, some species of which are elegant trees.





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"Euterpe" Quotes from Famous Books



... lady, Vittoria Archilei. Embryo opera of Cavalieri. Peri's "Eurydice." Euterpe. Marthe le Rochois and Lully's operas. Rival queens in London. Steele, in "Tattler." Second pair of rivals, Cuzzoni and Faustina. Master Handel. Germany's earliest queen of song. Frederick the Great and German singers. ...
— For Every Music Lover - A Series of Practical Essays on Music • Aubertine Woodward Moore
... Herodotus tells us ("Euterpe," cxlii.) that, according to the information he received from the Egyptian priests, their written history dated back 11,340 years before his era, or nearly 14,000 years prior to this time. They introduced him ...
— The Antediluvian World • Ignatius Donnelly
... knee—singing, sparkling, undulating, circling, rustling, the Bacchante entranced the heart of the Rosicrucian. She gleamed before him like the embodiment of enthusiasm. She was the genius of motion, the divinity of the dance; she was Terpsichore in the grace of her movements, Euterpe in the ravishing sweetness of her voice. A thrill of admiration suffused with a deeper tint even the abhorred cheek of ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 • Various


Words linked to "Euterpe" :   Palmae, Palmaceae, genus Euterpe, palm family, family Arecaceae, family Palmae, monocot genus, Greek mythology


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