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Ceres

City in Stanislaus County, central California, USA, in the San Joaquin Valley, immediately southeast of Modesto; population (1990) 26,300. The city is primarily an agricultural centre, with poultry farms, vineyards, and date, fig, and peach orchards all being important.



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Mother Ceres was exceedingly fond of her daughter Proserpina, and seldom let her go alone into the fields.
Tanglewood Tales by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
He sacrifices not to Ceres and the Terrestrial Jove, but to the infernal Plutus rather.
Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Thoreau, Henry David View in context
So again when Ceres fell in love with Iasion, and yielded to him in a thrice-ploughed fallow field, Jove came to hear of it before so very long and killed Iasion with his thunderbolts.
The Odyssey by Homer View in context
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