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The name Egeria may refer to:
- Egeria (mythology), a mythological water nymph and the wife of Numa Pompilius, second king of Rome
- Egeria Intelligence, a Canadian private intelligence agency, established in 2016.
- Egeria (pilgrim), also called Aetheria, a fourth-century Christian woman who made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land and wrote a letter about her travels
- HMS Egeria, three Royal Navy ships
- USS Egeria (ARL-8), a U.S. Navy repair ship named after the nymph
- 13 Egeria, an asteroid
- Egeria, West Virginia, an unincorporated community
- Egeria (plant), a genus of aquatic plants
- "Egeria" (Rome), an episode of the television series Rome
- Egeria, a character in the science fiction television series Stargate SG-1
- Dutch investment company, main owner of NRC Handelsblad
Egeria, Etheria or Aetheria was a woman, widely regarded to be the author of a detailed account of a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. The long letter, dubbed Peregrinatio (pilgrimage) or Itinerarium Egeriae, is addressed to a circle of women at home. Historical details it contains set the journey in the early 380s, making it the earliest of the kind. It survives in fragmentary form in a later copy - lacking any title, date and attribution.
Egeria was a nymph attributed a legendary role in the early history of Rome as a divine consort and counselor of the Sabine second king of Rome, Numa Pompilius, to whom she imparted laws and rituals pertaining to ancient Roman religion. Her name is used as an eponym for a female advisor or counselor.
Egeria is a genus of three species of aquatic plants in the family Hydrocharitaceae described as a genus in 1849. native to warm-temperate South America.
The genus was formerly included in the related genus Elodea, from which it differs in having the leaves in whorls of four or more, not three, and in having more conspicuous flowers with larger (particularly broader) petals.
Egeria is found in many temperate and subtropical regions throughout the world as an introduced, or "alien", species, meaning a species that does not originate from the area in which it is found. In many places, particularly in Europe, fast-growing, adaptable plants such as Egeria can spread quickly and cause major damage to native plants and wildlife.
Species- Egeria densa Planch. - S + SE Brazil, NE Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay; naturalized in scattered locales in Europe, Africa, China, New Zealand, Hawaii, USA, Mesoamerica, West Indies
- Egeria heterostemon S.Koehler & C.P.Bove - Brazil
- Egeria najas Planch. - S + SE + E Brazil, NE Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay
"Egeria" is the sixth episode of the first season of the television series Rome.
Usage examples of "egeria".
He it was who had given her the name of Egeria, because she said she had a genius who directed her and passed the nights with her when she slept by herself.
A statue of Egeria, goddess of the water-spring, was set in a niche beside the door.
He could not have been more startled if Egeria herself, the goddess of the water-spring, had suddenly materialised in the moonlight.
The holy women had been making their morning trip to the Fountain of Egeria near the Coelian Hill.
The tribune goggled, his face white, sweat-bright, at the Vestal Virgins on their morning journey to the Fountain of Egeria on the Coelian Hill.
In order to judge what counsels this Egeria gave, we have only to read some of her letters.
There are the episodes of Ulysses and Calypso, Ulysses and Circe, Numa and Egeria, Rinaldo and Armida, Prince Ahmed and Peri Banou.
The first Aemilia who was ever a Vestal was wise enough to know that the everyday tasks, tending the sacred fire and carrying all of our water from the wellit was the Fountain of Egeria in those days, admittedly a lot farther away than Juturnawere not enough to keep our minds busy and our intentions and our vows pure.
I have gone through the best years of youth without finding the Egeria with whom the cavern would be sweeter than a throne.
He could not have been more startled if Egeria herself, the goddess of the water-spring, had suddenly materialized in the moonlight.
She would fain play the part of Egeria and lay down the law to him in stolen interviews beyond the city.
As Numa went often thither alone, under pretence of conferring with the goddess, he dedicated the place to the Muses, because their meetings with his wife Egeria were held there.