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amalthea
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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 ...
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Amalthea is the annual technical summit of Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar . The first summit was organised in 2010 with the belief in spreading knowledge and since then it has been organised every year during the fall . With the aim to inculcate ...
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.