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What does Cytherean mean?

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Adjective
  1. (uncommon) Of or pertaining to Cythera, an island now part of Greece, at which the goddess Aphrodite came ashore on a seashell according to Greek mythology. Thus, referring to the goddesses Aphrodite or Venus.
  2. (uncommon) Of or pertaining to the planet Venus; Venusian.
  3. (rare) Venereal.
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The Cytherean babes had set their torches to that flotilla, and it had blazed like match-wood.
The Cytherean spoke, and sought her son's embrace, and laid the armour glittering under an oak over against him.
The Cytherean gave ready assent to her request, and laughed at the wily invention.
Pallas Athene taught them by word of mouth, and the Cytherean was their rosy, warm, unfailing friend.
Now beneath the beaming moon, Cytherean Venus leads forth the band.
Here he applies the notion to polis thought, which he proposes as a subdivision of academic political theory, and develops before explaining its cytherean components.

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