A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1871)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York, Hurd and Houghton · leaf 506
Boreas, the Argestes (Olympias or Sciron), and tlie Tlirascias. This is the arrangement of Aristotle, who also says that Eurus is not east but southeast. There is a different arrangement upon a monument in the Museum Pio-Clementinum. The Venti are represented in art with wings at the head and… … Venus (Aphrodite) and Eros (Cupid). ishe was at length worshipped in various characters. The surname of Murtea or Murcia, referred to her fondness for the myrtle. That of Calva, to the fact that on her wedding-day the bride cut off a lock of hair to sacrifice to Yenus. She was worshipped as Yenus…
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