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Aglaia

noun
1.
(Greek mythology) one of the three Graces.






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"Aglaia" Quotes from Famous Books



... he had scored, and scuttled back to the shelter of the Manual. "Perhaps you don't know enough about the new system in Alpha Centauri," he said, a trifle wildly. "It has two suns surrounded by three planets, Thalia, Aglaia, and Euphrosyne. Each of these planets is slightly smaller than Earth, so that the decrease in gravity is just great enough to be pleasant, without being so marked as to be inconvenient. The atmosphere is almost exactly like that of Earth's, ...
— The Most Sentimental Man • Evelyn E. Smith

... The three Graces of classical mythology were Euphrosyne (the light-hearted one), Aglaia (the bright one), and Thalia (the blooming one). See L'Alleg. 12: "Euphrosyne ... Whom lovely Venus, at a birth, With two sister Graces more, To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore." They were sometimes represented as daughters of Zeus, and as the goddesses who purified ...
— Milton's Comus • John Milton



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