Cypris

[ sip-ris ]

noun

1. an epithet of Aphrodite, meaning “Lady of Cyprus.”

Example Sentences

I will come myself, as soon as everything is ready here; and, after such a gift, foam-born Cypris will surely grant my petition.

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He devoted himself to winning the good graces of a young Greek girl, who had lately come to Rome from the island of Cypris.

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The hands are the hands, in both poems, of Aphrodite: the voices are respectively those of Cypris and of Urania.

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The free Cypris stage is not of long duration; and during it the larva does not take food.

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From the Nauplius condition the larv pass at a single moult into an entirely different condition known as the Cypris stage.

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