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Legendary nurse in a bad French hospital starts to earn accolades - about time!
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amalthea
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In Greek mythology , Amalthea or Amaltheia is the most-frequently mentioned foster-mother of Zeus .
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n. 1 (context Greek mythology English) The most frequently mentioned foster mother of Zeus, sometimes represented as the goat who suckled the infant-god in a mountain cave, sometimes as a goat-tending nymph. 2 (context astronomy English) The third most ...
Usage examples of amalthea.
At last the living Sibyl, whose name was Amalthea, quite a young woman too, revealed herself.
The red shaft of light failed, so that Deiphobe disappeared-somebody, probably the novice, had covered up the tiny red-glass window-and a new shaft, white, struck down and lit up Amalthea seated on an ivory throne in the shadows behind.
It is as rich and fecund as the cornucopia, that fabulous horn of the goat Amalthea which suckled Zeus, perpetually overflowing with flowers, fruit, and who knows what.
The Jupiter crew refused to believe their story, and instead gave them supplies enough to go elsewhere, and towed them back out beyond the orbit of Amalthea, to the outer ring, and let them go with a warning not to return.
Hidalgo was a planetoid no bigger than the moon Amalthea, in a stretched-out orbit between Mars and Saturn.