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Adrastea

/ əˈdræstɪə /

noun

  1. a small satellite of Jupiter, discovered in 1979

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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The new images revealed details astronomers hadn’t expected to see around the guardian of the solar system, including two of the giant planet’s smaller moons Amalthea and Adrastea.

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So it’s good to know that this new game has a lot more and varied bosses present, from things like the mobile armor-esque Dendrobium to the land battleship Adrastea.

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Perhaps the Adrastea were engrafted upon the Dionysia.1692.Athen.

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These, and innumerable other actions of the same kind, Adrastea, who is also called Nemesis, the avenger of wicked and the rewarder of good deeds, is continually bringing to pass: would that she could always do so!

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Let our Adrastea be propitious to these words.

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