Meaning of Venus | Babel Free

Definitions

1. loveliness, attractiveness, beauty, grace, elegance, charm
   declension-3, feminine, uncountable
2. Theoretical form of vēnum used as lemma by some dictionaries.
3. Venus (goddess of love and beauty)
   Roman, declension-3, feminine
4. love, beloved (person or object)
   countable, declension-3, feminine
5. Venus (planet)
   declension-3, feminine
6. metaphor for the genus of animation, living matter
   declension-3, feminine, poetic
7. copper
   declension-3, feminine
8. the best throw at the dice
   declension-3, feminine
9. See venus.
   declension-3, feminine

Equivalents

Examples

“sine Cerere et Līberō frīget Venus”

without Ceres and Liber, Venus freezes (without food and wine, love doesn't thrive)

“Aeneadum genetrīx, hominum dīvomque voluptās, alma Venus, caelī subter lābentia signa quae mare nāvigerum, quae terrās frūgiferentīs concelebrās, per tē quoniam genus omne animantum concipitur 1916 translation by William Ellery Leonard Mother of Rome, delight of Gods and men, Dear Venus that beneath the gliding stars”

And fruitful lands - for all of living things Through thee alone are evermore conceived

“Talis enim iactatis, ut quisque canem aut senionem miserat, in singulos talos singulos denarios in medium conferebat, quos tollebat uniuersos, qui Venerem iecerat”

When the tali (an oblong dice) would be thrown, those who had gotten an ace or a six had to place a denarius in the middle of the table for each dice thrown, the one that would achieve in getting a Venus won it all.

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