It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday!
"#Selene (the Moon), circle of gleaming gold, daughter of radiant-belted Helios!"
#Euripides, Phoenicians 175
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday!
"Not ye had the wakeful dawn put all the stars to flight from heaven, and Luna [#Selene] was beholding the approach of day with fading horn."
Statius, Thebaid 12.1
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday!
"So does starlight splendour wane with the coming of the sun, and the huddled flock of the Pleiades vanish away when Phoebe [#Selene the Moon], shining with borrowed light [from the sun], with encircling horns encloses her full-orbed disk."
Seneca, Medea 95
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday!
"Three nights remained before #Luna's (the Moon's) bright horns would meet and form her orb; then when she shone in fullest radiance and with form complete gazed down upon the sleeping lands below."
Ovid, Metamorphoses 7.179
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday!
"#Selene, circle of gleaming gold, daughter of radiant-belted #Helios (the Sun)."
#Euripides, Phoenicians 175
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday!
"Rosy-fingered #Selene (the Moon) after sunset, surpasssing all the stars, and her light spreads alike over the salt sea and the flowery fields; the dew is shed in beauty, and roses bloom and tender chervil and flowery melilot."
#Sappho, Fragment 96
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday!
"A team of mules unbridled and a mule-cart with silver wheels are there on the beach, but #Selene knows not how to put mules to her yokestrap--she drives a team of bulls!"
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 7.222
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We are the children of Hyperion
That light of the heavens
Born of Gaea, our divine mother the sacred earth
And Ouranos, our divine father the starry sky
We are the children of Theia
That Titan that sees all and allows us to see
Born of Gaea, our divine mother and giver of gifts
And Ouranos, our divine father the heavens above
Helios
Resplendant lord of the Winter Solstice
Selene
Silver gowned lady of the moon
Eos
Bedecked in shades of gold, violet, and indigo at the dawn
The divine Hyperionides
Who from the East ride forth
Into the heavens above
To bring light and color to the world once dark
The gifts of their parents
They who measure the days
And the months of the year
Art: Nicolas Poussin, French, 1594-1665
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday!
"And soon #Luna [Selene] comes with veiled horns."
Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 8. 28
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday!
"When Mene [#Selene], full with grey fire, gilds with her face the gleaming heaven: not when, sharpening her pointed horns, she first shines, rising in the shadowless dusk of the month, but when, orbing the round radiance of her eye, she draws to herself the reflected rays of the sun."
Tryphiodorus, The Taking of Ilias 514
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday!
"May you [Luna-Selene the Moon] wear a shining face and, the clouds all scattered, fare on with undimmed horns; when you drive your car through the nightly skies."
Seneca, Phaedra 417
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday!
"For even the stars go pale before their streams, no longer do we see the Moon [#Selene], the dark-eyed lady that treads upon the heel of the sun, who is frozen among the clouds."
Anonymous, Two Poems Fragments, Select Papyri III, No. 140
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday!
"Rising from the distant east, the Lady Selene, Titanian goddess, saw the girl [#Medea] wandering distraught, and in wicked glee said to herself: So I am not the only one to go astray for love, I that burn for beautiful Endymion and seek him in the Latmian cave."
Seneca, Phaedra 742
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Why doesn't #pampas&#selene for #msx work with #misterfpga , while the demo version does?
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday!
"As much fairer does your beauty shine as gleams more brightly the full-orbed moon when with meeting horns she has joined her fires, when at the full with speeding chariot blushing Phoebe [Selene the Moon] shows her face and the lesser stars fade out of sight."
Seneca, Phaedra 742
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday!
"You [#Helios the Sun], greatest glory of the unclouded sky [...] and you, his sister, ever faring opposite to your brother, Phoebe [#Selene the Moon], night-wanderer."
Seneca, Oedipus 250
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday!
"Hear, goddess queen, diffusing silver light, bull-horned, and wandering through the gloom of night. With stars surrounded, and with circuit wide night's torch extending, through the heavens you ride."
Orphic Hymn 9 to #Selene
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday!
"#Luna (the Moon) [Selene] herself has ordained various days in various grades as lucky for work. Shun the fifth; then pale Orcus [Horkos, Oath] and the Eumenides [Erinyes, Vengeances] were born."
Virgil, Georgics 1.276
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