Cytherean

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[sith-uh-ree-uhn] / ˌsɪθ əˈri ən /

adjective

1. of or relating to Cytherea.

2. Astronomy. of or relating to the planet Venus.

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Etymology

Origin of Cytherean

< Latin Cytherē(a) (< Greek Kythéreia Cytherea ( def. ) ) + -an

Example Sentences

Venus was certainly not visible at the Swampville table-d’hôte: for the presiding divinity was a perfect Hecate; and her attendant damsels could have found no place in the train of the Cytherean goddess.

From The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness by Reid, Mayne

Archippus says in his Fishes— The chrysophrys, sacred to Cytherean Venus.

From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us

Now Cytherean Venus leads off the dance by moonlight; and the comely Graces, in conjunction with the Nymphs, shake the ground with alternate feet; while glowing Vulcan kindles the laborious forges of the Cyclops.

From The Works of Horace by Horace

The Cytherean babes had set their torches to that flotilla, and it had blazed like match-wood.

From Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story by Beerbohm, Max, Sir

So spake the Cytherean one and sought her son's embrace, And hung the beaming arms upon an oak that stood in face.

From The Æneids of Virgil Done into English Verse by Morris, William