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ANADUOMENE VENUS

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ANADUOMENE VENUS, in the Grecian mythology, answered to the Sea-Venus in the Roman, and was the appellation given to one of the chief deities of the

Anodeia, the sea. The most celebrated picture in all antiquity was that of this goddess by Apelles; and the famous Anagnosta, Venus of Medici is a Sea-Venus.