Cytherea
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
- Cytherean adjective
Example Sentences
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“Delicate Adonis is dying, Cytherea, what shall we do? Beat your breasts, maidens, and rend your tunics.”
From Literature
There was already perceptible about it the air of unreality that marked the strand which saw the Embarkation for Cytherea.
From Project Gutenberg
When morning paints the orient skies, Her fingers burn with roseate dyes; The nymphs display the rose's charms, It mantles o'er their graceful arms; Through Cytherea's form it glows, And mingles with the living snows.
From Project Gutenberg
Had he met grey-eyed Athene, or beheld the roses and doves of Cytherea, the day would scarcely have held a more splendid memory.
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Weep no more in the woods, Cytherea, thy lover!
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