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Charis
[ key-ris ]
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The word cross is in all probability the same as charis which means charity, and akin to chrestos which means good.
Charis and Tyche were allegories, the latter having been represented sitting because happiness does not stand fast.
As Charis was a tower sacred to fire; some of the Poets have supposed a nymph of that name, who was beloved by Vulcan.
Some such mistake was made about the towers styled Charis: whence the Grecians formed their notion of the Graces.
Charis, Χαρις, of the Greeks, was the same personage as Ceres of the Romans.
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