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" Proserpine is said to have restored him to life, on condition that he should spend six months with her, and the rest of the year with Venus. This implies the alternate return of summer and winter. "
A Classical Dictionary: Containing a Copious Account of All Proper Names ...
by John Lemprière - 1822 - 755 pages
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A Dictionary of Ancient Classical and Scriptural Proper Names: In which Will ...

Thomas Browne (LL.D.) - Classical dictionaries - 1812 - 500 pages
...Proserpine is said to have restored bun to lite, on condition that he should spend six months with her, uinl the rest of the year with Venus. This implies the alternate return of summer and winter. Adonis had temples raised to his memory, and issaid DTSOIULto have been beloved by Apollo and Bacchus, .tpollail....
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The Scientific Library; Or, Repository of Useful and Polite Literature ...

Thomas Smith - Astronomy - 1818 - 158 pages
...tears for his loss, changed his blood into a flower called anemony, and Proserpine restored his body to life, on condition that he should spend six months with her, and the rest of the year with Venus; by which fable the alternate appearance of summer and winter is implied. The three Charities, or Graces,...
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A Classical Dictionary: Containing a Copious Account of All Proper Names ...

John Lemprière - Classical dictionaries - 1822 - 840 pages
...Venus, after shedding many tears at his death, changed him into a flower called aneraony. Proserpine is said to have restored him to life, on condition that he should spend six months with her, and tbe rest of the year with Venus. This implies the alternate return of summer and winter. Adonis is...
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A Classical Dictionary: Containing a Copious Account of All the Proper Names ...

John Lemprière - Classical dictionaries - 1823 - 892 pages
...Venus, after shedding many tears at his death, changed him into a flower called anemony. Proserpine is said to have restored him to life, on condition that...spend six months with her, and the rest of the year « i , n Venus. This implies the alternate return of summer and winter. A6oiii* nil is often taken...
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A scriptural and allegorical glossary to Milton's Paradise lost

Christian Cann - 1828 - 570 pages
...wounded, and Venus after shedding tears at his death, changed into a flower called Anemony. Proserpine is said to have restored him to life, on condition that...implies the alternate . return of summer and winter. 441 Alcinous, host of old Laertes's son Ulysses, the son of Laertes, was shipwreck'd on the coast of...
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An Arrangement of British Plants: According to the Latest ..., Volume 3

Botany - 1830 - 614 pages
...rests his pinions there." As in the fable of Adonis, Proserpine is said to hare restored the faronrite to life, on condition that he should spend six months with her, and the lest of the year with Venus, which implies the alternate return of Summer and Winter ; so it is impossible...
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Lempriere's Classical Dictionary for Schools and Academies: Containing Every ...

John Lemprière - Classical dictionaries - 1832 - 444 pages
...Venus, after shedding many tears at his death, changed him into a flower called anemony. Proserpine is said to have restored him to life, on condition that...summer and winter. Adonis is often taken for Osiris, hecause the festivals of hoth were often hegun with mournful lamentatious, and finished with a revival...
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Lempriere's Bibliotheca classica; or, Classical dictionary, re-ed. by E.H ...

John Lempriere - 1842 - 1150 pages
...flower anemone ; I'roBerpine restored him to life, on condition that he should spend G months with her, the rest of the year with Venus. This implies the alternate return of summer and winter. He is often taken for Osiris, because the festivals of both were often begun with lamentation, and...
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Lempriere's Classical dictionary, abridged by E.H. Barker

John Lempriere - 1843 - 670 pages
...From his blood sprung the flower Anemone. The goddess was so inconsolable at his loss that Proserpine restored him to life, on condition that he should...with her, and the rest of the year with Venus. This fable is evidently an allegorical allusion to the periodical return of summer and winter. Adonis was...
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Bibliotheca Classica: Or, a Classical Dictionary, Containing a Copious ...

John Lemprière - Classical dictionaries - 1852 - 798 pages
...deuti,, changed him inio a flower called anemony. Proserpine is paid to have restored him lo lite, or. condition that he should spend six months with her,...the rest of the year with Venus. This implies the allómate return of summer and winter. Adonis is often taken for Osir.s, because (he festivals of both...
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