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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- An island of southern Greece in the Mediterranean Sea south of the Peloponnesus. Southernmost of the Ionian Islands, it was the chief center for the worship of Aphrodite.
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1830, Nuncingen abandoned "Cythera," as Chardin des Lupeaulx had done before, and became again a man of figures, and was overwhelmed with favors: insignia, the peerage, and the cross of grand officer of the
Repertory of the Comedie Humaine Part 2 Anatole Cerfberr 1865
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Okay, you've made it clear this is all about Cythera.
Obama's Victory Speech: "The Status Quo Is Fighting Back With Everything It's Got" 2009
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Cythera, adults have a saying "If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it."
Obama's Victory Speech: "The Status Quo Is Fighting Back With Everything It's Got" 2009
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A medley of 'spades,' freezing in the fog, basking in the Cythera-summer, rackety and thrilled, lonely and getting nowhere...
Paperback Cover Cavalcade 7 Steve 2009
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Cythera, have you thought about trolling somewhere else?
Obama's Victory Speech: "The Status Quo Is Fighting Back With Everything It's Got" 2009
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Cythera were in the hands of the Athenians, and they were beset on every side by an enemy against whose swift attacks precaution was vain.
The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007
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The Athenians, raising a trophy, sailed back to Cythera.
The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007
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Cythera is an island which lies close to Laconia off Cape Malea; it is inhabited by
The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007
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The Lacedaemonians seeing that the Athenians had got possession of Cythera, and anticipating similar descents on their own shores, nowhere opposed them with their united forces, but distributed a body of hoplites in garrisons through the country where their presence seemed to be needed.
The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007
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During the same summer the Athenians with sixty ships, two thousand hoplites, and a few cavalry, taking also certain Milesian and other allied forces, made an expedition against Cythera, under the command of Nicias the son of Niceratus, Nicostratus the son of
The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007
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