Aglaia

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A·gla·ia

(ə-glā′ə, -glī′-)

n. Greek Mythology

One of the three Graces.

Aglaia

(əˈɡlaɪə)

(Classical Myth & Legend) Greek myth one of the three Graces

[Greek: splendour, from aglaos splendid]

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Aglaia - (Greek mythology) one of the three Graces

Greek mythology - the mythology of the ancient Greeks

Grace - (Greek mythology) one of three sisters who were the givers of beauty and charm; a favorite subject for sculptors

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Аглая

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907-911) And Eurynome, the daughter of Ocean, beautiful in form, bare him three fair-cheeked Charites (Graces), Aglaea, and Euphrosyne, and lovely Thaleia, from whose eyes as they glanced flowed love that unnerves the limbs: and beautiful is their glance beneath their brows.

945-946) And Hephaestus, the famous Lame One, made Aglaea, youngest of the Graces, his buxom wife.