Ura'nia
3. A surname of Aphrodite, describing her as " the heavenly," or spiritual, to distinguish her from Aphrodite Pandemos. Plato represents her as a daughter of Uranus, begotten without a mother. (
Sympos. p. 180; Xenoph.
Sympos. 8. § 9.) Wine was not used in the libations offered to her. (Schol.
ad Soph. Oed. Col. 101 ; Hdt. 1.105; Suid.
s. v. νηφάλια.)
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