Philotes
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In Greek mythology, Philotes ( ; Ancient Greek: ) was a minor goddess or spirit (daimones) personifying affection, friendship, and sexual intercourse. This minor goddess also gave her name to a genus of butterflies native to North America, which contains a single species, Philotes sonorensis.
In Greek mythology, Philotes ( ; Ancient Greek: ) was a minor goddess or spirit (daimones) personifying affection, friendship, and sexual intercourse. This minor goddess also gave her name to a genus of butterflies native to North America, which contains a single species, Philotes sonorensis. Hesiod, Theogony from The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website. Marcus Tullius Cicero, Nature of the Gods from the Treatises of M.T. Cicero translated by Charles Duke Yonge (1812–1891), Bohn edition of 1878. Online version at the Topos Text Project. Marcus Tullius Cicero, De Natura Deorum. O. Plasberg. Leipzig. Teubner. 1917. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
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