Nysa
Americannoun
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the mountain where Zeus sent the infant Dionysus to protect him from the vindictive wrath of Hera.
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one of the Nysaean Nymphs.
noun
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More than 5,000 soldiers have been deployed to help people in southern Poland, including the 40,000 residents evacuated from the town of Nysa.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2024
Thousands of people have been evacuted in Poland, including the personnel and patients of a hospital in the town of Nysa.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2024
Then Hermes carried it to be cared for by the nymphs of Nysa—the loveliest of earth’s valleys, but no man has ever looked upon Nysa or knows where it lies.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
"In his campaign against the long-lived Ethiopians," we are told in this passage, "Cambyses subjugated the Ethiopians who dwell around the sacred Nysa, and hold festivals in honour of Dionysus."
From The History of Antiquity Vol. VI. (vol. VI. of VI.) by Duncker, Max
In the first of these songs Damon gives vent to his despair in consequence of the marriage of his old love Nysa with his rival Mopsus.
From The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil by Sellar, W. Y.
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