Definition of Aphrodites

1. aphrodite [n] - See also: aphrodite

Lexicographical Neighbors of Aphrodites

aphotesthesia
aphotic
aphotic zone
aphotometric
aphrasia
aphrasias
aphrenia
aphrite
aphrodisiacal
aphrodisiacs
aphrodisian
aphrodite
aphrodites (current term)
aphroditic
aphrometer
aphrometers
aphronia
aphtha
aphthae
aphthae major
aphthae minor
aphthitalite
aphthoid
aphthong
aphthongs
aphthosis
aphthous

Literary usage of Aphrodites

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Natural History of Pliny by Pliny, John Bostock, Henry Thomas Riley (1857)
"... however untrue the story itself may be. See Note 75 above. 62 " Veneris gena;" called in Greek " aphrodites ..."

2. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1833)
"The arrangement of the species of nereides, according to M. de Blainville, should indicate the passage from the aphrodites, ..."

3. Griechische Kunstmythologie: Besonderer Theil by Johannes Adolf Overbeck (1871)
"Are»' und aphrodites Buhlschaft, in der Villa Albani in Rom"). FF. Ares' und aphrodites Buhlschaft, ehemals in der Villa Albani, jetzt unbekannten ..."

4. Psychopathia Sexualis, with Especial Reference to the Antipathic Sexual by Richard Krafft-Ebing (1922)
""There is no aphrodites without an Eros. But there are two goddesses. The older aphrodites came into existence without a mother; being the daughter of ..."

5. Pausanias's Description of Greece by Pausanias (1898)
"Augustine speaks of three aphrodites (De civil, dei, iv. ... As to the supposed Oriental character of these Theban aphrodites see Ph. Berger, ..."

6. Psychopathia Sexualis: With Especial Reference to the Antipathic Sexual by Richard Krafft-Ebing (1906)
""There is no aphrodites without an Eros. But there are two goddesses. The older aphrodites came into existence without a mother; being the daughter of ..."

7. Nouveau dictionnaire d'histoire naturelle, appliquée aux arts, à l by Jacques Eustache de Sève (1819)
"à l'aide des poils on soies roides dont ils sont recouverts en tout ou en partie , comme dans les aphrodites , les lombrics, etc. ; les autres, ..."

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