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Adonis

also: Adonis, Adonidi

The beautiful youth beloved of the Syrian Venus (Astarte), to whom she is said to have been married. Cotta names him in his catalogue of the several Venuses.

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On the Nature of the Gods philosophy · 1 mention

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