Pilumnus
Americannoun
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Although Philaebus was dead, two younger children remained to Pilumnus, Damon and Urania.
From Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England by Walter W. Greg
Claius, in his anxiety to make Amarillis reveal her assassin, betrays his own identity, to the joy of his old enemy Pilumnus.
From Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England by Walter W. Greg
Picumnus and Pilumnus were two household divinities of the Romans, who were the special presiding deities of new-born infants.
From Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E.M. Berens
Yet he traces his birth from our name, and Pilumnus was his father in the fourth generation, and oft and again his bountiful hand hath heaped thy courts with gifts.'
From The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil
Pilumnus, god of the pestle, and Diverra, goddess of the broom, may close our small sample of the limitless crowd.
From History of Religion A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems by Allan Menzies
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