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Mnemosyne

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Mne·mos·y·ne  (n-ms-n, -mz-)
n. Greek Mythology
The goddess of memory, mother of the Muses.
[Greek Mnmosun, from mnmosun, memory, from mnm; see men-1 in Indo-European roots.]
Mnemosyne [niːˈmɒzɪˌniː -ˈmɒs-]
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(Myth & Legend / Classical Myth & Legend) Greek myth the goddess of memory and mother by Zeus of the Muses
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Noun1.MnemosyneMnemosyne - (Greek mythology) the Titaness who was goddess of memory; mother of the Muses
Greek mythology - the mythology of the ancient Greeks


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53-74) Them in Pieria did Mnemosyne (Memory), who reigns over the hills of Eleuther, bear of union with the father, the son of Cronos, a forgetting of ills and a rest from sorrow.
Collection Of Hesiod, Homer and Homerica by Homer View in context
It is but the poisonous weeds, not the flowers, that we should root out from the garden of Mnemosyne.
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow by Jerome, Jerome K. View in context
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