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Venus

Sandro Botticelli:
La Nascita di Venere, 1482-1485

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‘Aenēādum genetrīx, hominum dīvomque voluptās,
alma Venus’

Dē Rērum Nātūrā Lucrētius

‘Oh mother of Aeneas’s race [i.e., the Romans], the pleasure of gods and people, oh nourishing Venus!’

On the Nature of Things Lucretius.

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