Dea Sentence Examples

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  • On the second and principal day of the festival the ceremonies were conducted in the grove of the Dea Dia.

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  • The settler who went into the woods might know neither the name nor the sex of the indwelling numen; " si deus si dea," " sive mas sive femina," ran the old formulae.

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  • But as Wykeham was of the party of the Black Prince and his widow Joan of Kent, no dea ex machina was needed.

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  • Most of the books mentioned under Gold Coast also dea!

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  • When you say " we turned from Dea ", are you referring to some distant ancestress of contemporary maid?

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  • The orgies of Adonis in the temple of Baalit (Aphrodite Byblia) are described by Lucian, De Dea Syr., cap. vi.

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  • He soon landed a few more small movie parts, all of which brought him to a recurring role on Twin Peaks as transvestite DEA agent Denise.

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  • For this reason you will see ingredients like sodium lauryl sulfate, Cocamide DEA, Parabens, glycerin, citric acid, and many other familiar but phonetically complicated agents.

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  • Thus we hear of temples dedicated to Juventas=Hebe (191 B.C.), Diana=Artemis (179 B.C.), Mars=Ares (138 B.C.), and find even such unexpected identifications as that of the Bona Dea - a cult title of the ancient Fauna, the female counterpart of the countryside numen Faunus - with a Greek goddess of women, Damia.

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  • Interamna is also mentioned in Cicero's time as being the place where Clodius wished to prove that he was on the night when he was caught in Caesar's house at the celebration of the rites of the Bona Dea.

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  • In 61 B.C. he was the chief accuser of P. Clodius in the affair of the festival of Bona Dea.

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  • Excavations, commenced in the 16th century and continued to the 19th, in the grove of the Dea Dia about 5 m.

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  • The great annual festival which they had to conduct was held in honour of the anonymous Dea Dia, who was probably identical with Ceres.

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  • Moreover, the temple of the earth-goddess Bona Dea on the slopes of the Aventine was a kind of herbarium, and snakes were kept there as a symbol of the medical art.

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