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Aphrodi`te

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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The Greek goddess of love and beauty, wife of Hephæstos and mother of Cupid; sprung from sea-foam; as queen of beauty had the golden apple awarded her by Paris, and possessed the power of conferring beauty, by means of her magic girdle, the cestus, on others.

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Aphrodi`te'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​a/aphrodite.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
 
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