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Definition of Atlantides
1. Noun. (Greek mythology) group of 3 to 7 nymphs who guarded the golden apples that Gaea gave as a wedding gift to Hera.
Definition of Atlantides
1. n. pl. The Pleiades or seven stars, fabled to have been the daughters of Atlas.
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1. Saturn and Its System: Containing Discussions of the Motions (real and by Richard Anthony Proctor (1865)
"... them do not even approximately correspond, Bailly was disposed to ascribe the
invention of the system to an extinct race, whom he called the atlantides. ..."
2. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau (1906)
"The imagination still clings to the faintest tradition of THE atlantides The
smothered streams of love, which flow More bright than Phlegethon, more low, ..."
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