Artemis
['ɑ:timis]
Definition
(noun.) (Greek mythology) the virgin goddess of the hunt and the Moon; daughter of Leto and twin sister of Apollo; identified with Roman Diana.
Typist: Ruben--From WordNet
Examples
- But both had the remote, virgin look of modern girls, sisters of Artemis rather than of Hebe. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- You are the inviolate Artemis! Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Artemis waited a long time for her shepherd, but he came at last, said the Greek significantly. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- I went down yesterday to the Piraeus with Glaucon the son of Ariston, that I might offer up my prayers to the goddess (Bendis, the Thracian Artemis. Plato. The Republic.
- Well, for my part, observed Helena reflectively, I do not worship Artemis so much as I do Demeter. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- The inviolate Artemis! Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- The Greeks had noble conceptions of womanhood in the goddesses Athene and Artemis, and in the heroines Antigone and Andromache. Plato. The Republic.
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