Lexicographical Neighbors of Genetrix
Literary usage of Genetrix
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... "mountain-birth" of Mithra . . . vice versa read The birth of Mithra from the
petra genetrix and that of Christ in the "grotto" have nothing in common. ..."
2. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"... a book of Latin verses containing sixteen hundred and ninety different anagrams
on the words " Salvator, genetrix, Joseph," and the same number of ..."
3. Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion by Jane Ellen Harrison (1903)
"... and as it were resume themselves again into the great monotheistic figure of
Venus genetrix. We have noted evidence, very scattered and fragmentary, ..."
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