Dioscuri
Americanplural noun
plural noun
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Where it were friendship's schism, Were not his Lucius long with us to tarry, To separate these twi- Lights, the Dioscuri; And keep the one half from his Harry.
From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Alden, Raymond MacDonald
Two youthful male figures, perhaps the Dioscuri, stand to the front, having an altar between them.
From A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) by Smith, A. H.
Two youths on horseback, probably the Dioscuri, though the conical cap, pileus, by which they are distinguished is wanting.
From A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) by Smith, A. H.
By this system, deities of lower rank such as the Dioscuri, or heroes like Triptolemos are admitted, on the frieze, to the company of the Olympian Gods.
From A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) by Smith, A. H.
And Epicharmus, in his Muses, says that Minerva played a martial strain to the Dioscuri.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
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