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magnes
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Magnes \Mag"nes\, n. [L.]
Magnet. [Obs.]
--Spenser.
Wiktionary
n. (obsolete form of magnet English)
Wikipedia
Magnes may refer to:
Magnes is the fifth solo album released by Reni Jusis. This dance album contains six original songs, one cover song (Ocale Cie by 2 Plus 1), three English-language versions of her older songs ("Single Bite Lover", "Leniviec", "How Can I Ever Forget You") and remixes of the first singles. The first ten tracks segue into each other, like a continuous club set.
In Greek mythology, Magnes was a name attributed to two men.
- Magnes, son of Zeus and Thyia, daughter of Deucalion, or of Aeolus and Enarete, or of Argus (son of Phrixus) and Perimele, eponym and first king of Magnesia, and brother of Makednos. He is sometimes identified with the father of Perseus, Dictys, Polydectes, Pierus, and Eioneus by the unnamed naiad of the fountain, spring or well of the main settlement on the island of Seriphos. She emigrated with two of her sons (Dictys and Polydectes) to Seriphos. By the muse Calliope he was the father of Hymenaios. When Apollo fell in love with Hymenaios and stayed with him in the house of Magnes, Hermes stole Apollo's herd of cows.
- Magnes from Zakynthos, one of the suitors of Penelope. He was killed, along with the others, by Odysseus.
Magnes ( Greek: Μάγνης) was an Athenian comic poet of the 5th century BC. Magnes and his contemporary Chionides are the earliest comic poets for whom victories are recorded in the literary competition of the Dionysia festival.
Titles of his comedies:
- Βαρβίτιδες (Barbitides), Guitarists of Barbiton
- Βάτραχοι ( Batrachoi), Frogs
- Γαλεομυομαχία (Galeomyomachia), Battle of Cats and Mice
- Διόνυσος (Dionysos), Dionysus
- Λυδοί ( Lydoi), Lydians
- Ὄρνιθες ( Ornithes), Birds
- Πιτακίς ή Πυτακίδης (Pitakis or Pytakidis, related to Pita, Pytia or Pittakion, Wax tablet)
- Ποάστρια (Poastria), Female Farm-Worker (derived from Poa)
- Ψῆνες (Psenes), Fig wasps
Usage examples of "magnes".
And in the last days of summer, 1911, two families from Ottumwa reported to the station for the journey west: Earl and Alice Grebe and a crafty older pair already familiar with emigration, Magnes and Vesta Volkema, accompanied by their two teen-age children.
One of these days Magnes and I will be heading for California, and who knows?
Yet we possess fragments in Lactantius, Augustine, Macarius Magnes and others, which attest how thoroughly Porphyry studied the Christian writings and how great his faculty was for true historical criticism.
A Greek legend relates how a shepherd named Magnes found that his crook was attracted by a strange rock.
Dinocrates, who set about building a temple to Diana in which, by means of Magnes stones, a statue of that goddess would be suspended in midair.
And in the last days of summer, 1911, two families from Ottumwa reported to the station for the journey west: Earl and Alice Grebe and a crafty older pair already familiar with emigration, Magnes and Vesta Volkema, accompanied by their two teen-age children.