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Dione

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Dione
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An Olympian figure and mother of Venus; classified conservatively because the source does not explicitly call her a deity.

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Olympus1 observation
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Dione received and caressed Venus at high Olympus.

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till in a trice they were at high Olympus, where the gods have their dwelling. There she stayed them, unloosed them from the chariot, and gave them their ambrosial forage; but Venus flung herself on to the lap of her mother Dione, who threw her arms about her and caressed her

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Dione embraces and caresses her wounded daughter.

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Dione, who threw her arms about her and caressed her, saying, ‘Which of the heavenly beings has been treating you in this way, as though you had been doing something wrong in the face of day?
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Dione wipes ichor from Venus’s wrist, ending her pain and healing her hand.

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So saying, she wiped the ichor from the wrist of her daughter with both hands, whereon the pain left her, and her hand was healed.

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Dione

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Book 5 · Passage 32

Thus she spoke, and Mars gave her his gold-bedizened steeds. She mounted the chariot sick and sorry at heart, while Iris sat beside her and took the reins in her hand. She lashed her horses on and they flew forward nothing loth, till in a trice they were at high Olympus, where the gods have their dwelling. There she stayed them, unloosed them from the chariot, and gave them their ambrosial forage; but Venus flung herself on to the lap of her mother Dione, who threw her arms about her and caressed her, saying, ‘Which of the heavenly beings has been treating you in this way, as though you had been doing something wrong in the face of day?’