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In particular, the line "But might I of Jove's nectar sup" is often rendered: "But might I of love's nectar sip". The disappearance of Jove was probably not due to changing fashion, however, but to a popular misreading of the text of early editions.
The Roman practice of swearing by Jove to witness an oath in law courts [122] [123] is the origin of the expression "by Jove!"—archaic, but still in use. The name of the god was also adopted as the name of the planet Jupiter ; the adjective " jovial " originally described those born under the planet of Jupiter [ 124 ] (reputed to be jolly ...
A honey bee collecting nectar from an apricot flower.. The nectar resource in a given area depends on the kinds of flowering plants present and their blooming periods. Which kinds grow in an area depends on soil texture, soil pH, soil drainage, daily maximum and minimum temperatures, precipitation, extreme minimum winter temperature, and growing degre
JOVE (Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs) [1] is an open-source, Emacs-like text editor, primarily intended for Unix-like operating systems. It also supports MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows . JOVE was inspired by Gosling Emacs but is much smaller and simpler, lacking Mocklisp .
Jupiter Sidecar is the second album by the Shelters. Tom Petty (who died in 2017) acted as a sounding board for many of the tracks when they were in their demo stages, including "Strange," "Waiting for Life to Begin," and "Can't Go Home."
The account most familiar to artists in Rubens' time was that as told by Ovid in his Metamorphoses: “The king of the gods Jupiter once burned with love for the Phrygian Ganymede, and something was found which Jove would rather be than what he was. Still he did not deign to take the form of any bird save that which could bear his thunderbolts ...
In ancient Roman religion, the Epulum Jovis (also Epulum Iovis) was a sumptuous ritual feast offered to Jove on the Ides of September (September 13) and a smaller feast on the Ides of November (November 13). [1] It was celebrated during the Ludi Romani ("Roman Games") and the Ludi Plebeii ("Plebeian Games"). [2]
against Jove's thunder. [ 101 ] Here Virgil has the Hundred-Hander as having fought on the side of the Titans rather than the Olympians, as in the Titanomachy , [ 102 ] with the additional descriptive details of the fifty fire-breathing mouths and breasts, and the fifty sets of sword and shield, perhaps also coming from that lost poem.