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Selene

noun

(Greek mythology) goddess of the Moon in ancient mythology; identified with Roman Luna.

A genus of Carangidae. Synonym: genus Selene.

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Selene setapinnis

Selene vomer

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"Selene" Quotes from Famous Books

... Tennyson, on the other hand, was already finding material for poetry in the world as seen through microscope and telescope, and as developed through "aeonian" processes of evolution. In a notebook, mixed with Greek, is a poem on the Moon—not the moon of Selene, "the orbed Maiden," but of astronomical science. In Memoriam recalls the conversations on labour and politics, discussions of the age of the Reform Bill, of rick-burning (expected to "make taters cheaper"), and of Catholic emancipation; also the emancipation of such negroes as had not yet ...

— Alfred Tennyson • Andrew Lang

... Poseidon the earth-holder who shakes the earth, and reverend Themis and quick-glancing [1601] Aphrodite, and Hebe with the crown of gold, and fair Dione, Leto, Iapetus, and Cronos the crafty counsellor, Eos and great Helius and bright Selene, Earth too, and great Oceanus, and dark Night, and the holy race of all the other deathless ones that are for ever. And one day they taught Hesiod glorious song while he was shepherding his lambs under holy Helicon, and this word first the goddesses said to me—the Muses of Olympus, ...

— Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica • Homer and Hesiod

Words linked to "Selene" : family Carangidae, genus Selene, Greek deity, Greek mythology, Carangidae, Selene setapinnis, Selene vomer, fish genus