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Egeria

In Roman mythology, the spirit of a stream just outside Rome; also of a stream at Aricia. She advised Numa Pompilius, the second king of Rome, on all matters. Egeria was worshipped by pregnant women, and also as a prophetic deity, in association with Diana and the Camenae.



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I had a positive abhorrence for the painted, bedizened, dead- faced, glassy-eyed Egeria of Peter Ivanovitch.
Under Western Eyes by Conrad, Joseph View in context
It is really very unfortunate that you are not the Egeria of M.
Ten Years Later by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
The Princess was of the family of Pompili, lineally descended from the second king of Rome, and Egeria of the house of Olympus, while the Prince's grandfather, Alessandro Polonia, sold wash-balls, essences, tobacco, and pocket-handkerchiefs, ran errands for gentlemen, and lent money in a small way.
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