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Mother of the Muses
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mnemosyne
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Mnemosyne is an academic journal of Classical Studies published by Brill Publishers . It was established in 1852 as a journal of textual criticism . It publishes articles in English, French, German, and Latin. The journal is abstracted and indexed in the ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mnemosyne \Mne*mos"y*ne\, n. [L., fr. Gr. mnhmosy`nh remembrance, memory, and the goddess of memory. See Mnemonic .] (Class Myth.) The goddess of memory and the mother of the Muses.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
titaness, mother of the Muses, from Greek mnemosyne , literally "memory, remembrance," from mneme "memory" (see mnemonic ).
Usage examples of mnemosyne.
In Satyres shape Antiopa he snatcht:And like a fire, when he Aegin' assayd:A shepheard, when Mnemosyne he catcht:And like a Serpent to the Thracian mayd.
The Mnemosyne, or Syne as commonly called, was a lock decrypter, shaped like an elongated circle divided down the center by a thread-thin slit.
Shift the Hyperion group into the empty base in Mnemosyne, for instance, if that base is still usable.
The name Helicon had been borrowed from a myth of the Ancients: it was the mountain home of the muses, who were the nine daughters of the gods Zeus and Mnemosyne, and were themselves the goddesses of memory and art and science.
The Muses are generally said to be the daughters of Zeus and the Titaness Mnemosyne (Memory), a genesis that is more allegory than myth.
For many years she had been a frequent guest of the Muses, who dwelt there with the Titaness Mnemosyne.
The thing clinging to the vertical surface of the central Mnemosyne cable was not a buzz bomb, just as an alligator is not an iguana.