Οὐρανία: Difference between revisions

|Definition=(Boeot. [[Ὠρανία]] <span class="title">IG</span>7.1804, also at Epidaurus, ib.42(1).283), Ep. and Ion. [[Οὐρανίη]], ἡ, [[Urania]], name of one of the [[Muses]], <span class="bibl">Hes. <span class="title">Th.</span>78</span>; later, she was looked on esp. as the Muse of Astronomy, Cic.<span class="title">Div.</span>1.11.17, al. <span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> [[epithet]] of Aphrodite, opp. <b class="b3">Ἀ. Πάνδημος</b>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Smp.</span>181c</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">Fr.</span>122.4</span>, <span class="bibl">Hdt.1.105</span>; worshipped in Scythia, <span class="bibl">Id.4.59</span>, <span class="title">IPE</span>2.28 (Panticapaeum); in Amorgos, <span class="title">IG</span>12(7).57 (iii B. C.). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">III</span> the Arabians called [[the moon]] [[Ἀλιλάτ]], i.e. [[Οὐρανίη]], <span class="bibl">Hdt.3.8</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">IV</span> [[a game in which a ball was thrown into the air]], Hsch. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">V</span> a plant, = [[ἶρις]], Ps.-Dsc.1.1. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">VI</span> Aeol. or Dor. ὠρανίᾱφι, said to be voc., <span class="title">O</span> (Muse) [[of heaven]], <span class="bibl">Alcm.59</span>.</span>