Endymion

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En·dym·i·on

 (ĕn-dĭm′ē-ən)
n. Greek Mythology
A handsome young man whom Selene loved and whose youth was preserved by eternal sleep.
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Endymion

(ɛnˈdɪmɪən)
n
(Classical Myth & Legend) Greek myth a handsome youth who was visited every night by the moon goddess Selene, who loved him
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En•dym•i•on

(ɛnˈdɪm i ən)

n.
(in Greek myth) a handsome youth loved by the goddess Selene.
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Undismayed at the ill success of his first book, the next year he published his long poem Endymion.
Endymion was a fabled Grecian youth whose beauty was so great that Selene, the cold moon, loved him.
But although throughout the long poem there are lovely passages, and one or two most beautiful lyrics, the critics of the day saw only the faults of which Endymion is full, and the poem was received with a storm of abuse.
"The New Endymion" is a good instance of such sustained [113] power.
As yet it has only been recognized in the depths of the circle of Endymion, to the east of the "Cold Sea," in the northern hemisphere, and at the bottom of Grimaldi's circle, on the equator, toward the eastern border of the orb.
'Endymion,' where he uses, one of the vaguely beautiful Greek myths as the basis for the expression of his own delight in the glory of the world and of youthful sensations.
At the moment when the hand of the massive time-piece, representing Endymion asleep, pointed to nine on its golden face, and the hammer, the faithful type of mechanical thought, struck nine times, the name of the Count of Monte Cristo resounded in its turn, and as if by an electric shock all the assembly turned towards the door.
She lays close to the Endymion, between her and the Cleopatra, just to the eastward of the sheer hulk."
She soon after left the studio, bearing with her, in her memory, the image of a man's head, as beauteous as that of the Endymion, a masterpiece of Girodet's which she had lately copied.
57: Hesiod says that Endymion was the son of Aethlius the son of Zeus and Calyee, and received the gift from Zeus: `(To be) keeper of death for his own self when he was ready to die.'
In addition, we expect interim data from our open-label ENDYMION trial with OV935 (soticlestat) for individuals with rare developmental and epileptic encephalopathies to be available later this quarter.
She rejects his advances, so Mercury suggests the god take on the form of goddess Diana in order to win the virgin girl Meanwhile, the shepherd Endymion and the real Diana fall in love.
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