First she drew near holy
Cythera, and from there, afterwards, she came to sea-girt Cyprus, and came forth an awful and lovely goddess, and grass grew up about her beneath her shapely feet.
His face was wrinkled and his hair silvered; but an intelligent observer would have recognized at once the stigmata of passion and the furrows of pleasure which appeared in the crow's-feet and the marches-du-palais, so prized at the court of
Cythera. Everything about this dainty chevalier bespoke the "ladies' man." He was so minute in his ablutions that his cheeks were a pleasure to look upon; they seemed to have been laved in some miraculous water.
I should have got home at that time unharmed had not the North wind and the currents been against me as I was doubling Cape Malea, and set me off my course hard by the island of
Cythera.
He gave it to Amphidamas of
Cythera to take to Scandea, and Amphidamas gave it as a guest-gift to Molus, who gave it to his son Meriones; and now it was set upon the head of Ulysses.
He looked himself over in a mirror, admitting honestly that though he did very well as a politician he was a wreck on the shores of
Cythera. At the same moment Madame Rabourdin was gathering herself together for a becoming exit.
I shall never recall without a sense of delight the brief time I spent among you, and as long as I live, I shall celebrate the happy island of
Cythera. It is the true Utopia" (74).
Mohammed, "Postharvest physiology and storage of golden apple (Spondias
cythera sonnerat or Spondias dulcis forst): a review," Journal of Food Processing and Technology, vol.
Upon Menelaus's discovery that Paris has abducted his wife and ransacked the temple of
Cythera, his grief must be contained by his brother Agamemnon, who counsels him to "Make ther good face and glad in port the feine" and dissuades him "nat to wepen as women in her rage, / Whiche is contrarie to an highe corage" (4367, 4378-79).
Biisser sets the first and last stanza of this text, which describes Jean-Antoine Watteau's painting Pilgrimage to
Cythera as "soft," "gentle," and "melancholic" (Samain poem, stanza 2).