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Admete

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[ad-mee-tee] / ædˈmi ti /

noun

Classical Mythology.

  1. a daughter of Eurystheus for whom Hercules took the golden girdle of Ares from Hippolyte.

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At the command of Eurystheus Heracles had been compelled to bring the girdle from Hippolyte, the queen of the Amazons, for Admete.

From The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) by Duncker, Max

On the other hand, the Coralline Crag contains only two shells closely related to arctic forms of the genera Admete and Limopsis.

From The Antiquity of Man by Lyell, Charles, Sir

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