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n. - Goddess of love and beauty and daughter of Zeus in ancient mythology.

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  • Sophocles did well to call Aphrodite "fruitful Cytherea."
  • Cytherea through all the mountain-knees, through every dell doth utter piteous dirge:
  • Suppose you are married to Cytherea herself, and the next week attacked with a rheumatic fever.
  • In an allegory by the same author, entitled the “Liturgy of Cytherea,” we find these lines:
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