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                    "reference": "Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (ed. William Smith 1870), Wikisource | public domain",
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                    "description": "Proper name: URA'NIA (Οὐρανία) 1. One of the Muses, a daughter of Zeus by Mnemosyne. (Hes. Theog. 78&#160;; Ov. Fast. v. 55.) The ancient bard Linus is called her son by Apollo (Hygin. Fab. 161), and Hymenaeus also is said to have been a son of Urania. (Catull. lxi. 2.) She was regarded, as her name indicates, as the Muse of Astronomy, and was represented with a celestial globe to which she points with a little staff. (Hirt, Mythol. Bilderb. p. 210.) (<a href='https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Dictionary_of_Greek_and_Roman_Biography_and_Mythology\/Urania_1.'>Wikisource<\/a> | public domain)"
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                    "description": "Ūrănĭa | Ūrănĭē, ēs (noun F) : or , , , = Οὐρανία or Οὐρανίη (the Heavenly)\n* Urania, the Muse of astronomy, Cic. Div. 1, 11, 17; id. Q. Fr. 2, 9, 1; Ov. F. 5, 55; Aus. Idyll. 20, 8; Mart. Cap. 1, §§ 7 and 28; Hyg. Fab. 161.\n* The name of one of Actoeon's hounds, Hyg. Fab. 181."
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