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Maia   /mˈaɪə/   Listen
Maia

noun
1.
Type genus of the Majidae; nearly cosmopolitan in distribution.  Synonyms: genus Maia, genus Maja, Maja.





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"Maia" Quotes from Famous Books



... of traffic (-Mercurius-) also appears to have been from the first influenced by Greek conceptions; and his annual festival seems even to have been fixed on the ides of May, because the Hellenic poets celebrated him as the son of the beautiful Maia. ...
— The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) • Theodor Mommsen
... there is between the silent grave and the silent stars an answer to this problem we have discussed to-night, of the inter-relation between spirit and matter, between soul and soul? To me it seems hopelessly inscrutable, and all effort to elucidate it, like the language of the Son of Maia, 'by night bringeth darkness before the eyes, and in the daytime nought clearer.' I shall as soon expect to wrest her buried secrets from the Sphinx, or to revive the lost mysteries of ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 10, No. 57, July, 1862 - A Magazine Of Literature, Art, And Politics • Various


Words linked to "Maia" :   king crab, arthropod genus, European spider crab, Majidae, Maja squinado, genus Maia, genus Maja, family Majidae, Maja


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