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Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

    The Atlas·Groups

    Graces

    group · 12 works · 14 mentions · 18 anchored passages

    the Graces · Aglaia · Charites · Euphrosyne · Graces of splendid Orchomenus · Kharites · Pasithea · Thalia · gentle Graces · golden-haired Graces

    spoken of as

    1 expression

    The Graces5 mentions

    Cyclops (Greek) · Iliad (Greek) · Olympian (Greek) · Theaetetus (Greek) · On Benefits (Latin)

    There are the Graces trying to tempt me.
    book 2

    in the texts

    IliadClassical · Greek

    Goddesses of charm, one of whom, Pasithea, Hera promises to Sleep in marriage.

    Come, I will marry you to one of the youngest of the Graces [ kharites], and she shall be your own - Pasithea, whom you have always wanted to marry.
    husn ghamze ki kashakash se chhoota mere baad
    lay one hand on the bounteous earth, and the other on the sheen of the sea, so that all the gods who dwell down below with Kronos may be our witnesses, and see that you really do give me one of the youngest of the Graces [ kharites] - Pasithea, whom I have always wanted to marry.
    chapter 14
    The point tore through the ambrosial robe which the Graces [ kharites] had woven for her, and pierced the skin between her wrist and the palm of her hand, so that the immortal blood, or ichor, that flows in the veins of the blessed gods, came pouring from the wound;
    chapter 5

    NemeanClassical · Greek

    The goddesses of charm and beauty, repeatedly invoked as patronesses of eloquent, joyful celebration.

    whatever words the tongue, with the favor of the Graces, draws from the deep mind.
    chapter 4
    Bring to the porch of Aeacus green garlands of flowers, in company with the golden-haired Graces.
    chapter 5
    In very holy Pytho the blood of this family was once victorious, his hands bound with leather straps—Callias, who had found favor with the children of Leto of the golden distaff, and beside Castalia at evening he was made radiant by the loud chorus of the Graces.
    chapter 6

    OrationsImperial · Greek

    Greek goddesses personifying gratitude and charm, invoked to argue that ingratitude is a form of impiety.

    Do you not know that most men consider the Graces goddesses too?
    oration 31

    CyclopsClassical · Greek

    Divine personifications of grace and beauty whom the drunken Cyclops imagines trying to seduce him

    There are the Graces trying to tempt me.
    book 2

    HelenClassical · Greek

    Group of goddesses (the Charites) sent by Zeus to relieve the Mother's grief in the choral myth.

    Go, holy Graces, go and with a loud cry take from Demeter’s angry heart her grief for the maiden;
    helen

    Hymn 27 to ArtemisClassical · Greek

    Divine attendants or performers who join the Muses in the ordered dance.

    and when she is satisfied and has cheered her heart, this huntress who delights in arrows slackens her supple bow and goes to the great house of her dear brother Phoebus Apollo, to the rich land of Delphi, there to order the lovely dance of the Muses and Graces.
    hymn 27 to artemis

    Hymn 5 to AphroditeClassical · Greek

    The Graces are divine attendants who prepare Aphrodite and are imagined by Anchises as possible immortal visitors.

    There she went in and put to the glittering doors, and there the Graces bathed her with heavenly oil such as blooms upon the bodies of the eternal gods —oil divinely sweet, which she had by her, filled with fragrance.
    hymn 5 to aphrodite
    Or, maybe, you are one of the Graces come hither, who bear the gods company and are called immortal, or else one of the Nymphs who haunt the pleasant woods, or of those who inhabit this lovely mountain and the springs of rivers and grassy meads.
    hymn 5 to aphrodite

    IsthmeanClassical · Greek

    The goddesses of charm and beauty, repeatedly invoked as co-patrons of the victory-songs alongside the Muses.

    I have come with the Graces for the sons of Lampon to this well-governed city.
    chapter 5
    But such honors as these also welcome the joy of triumph, covered with the delicious honey of song.
    chapter 5
    and it is right for a man raised in seven-gated Thebes to offer the choicest bloom of the Graces to Aegina.
    chapter 8

    OlympianClassical · Greek

    Goddesses of grace and favor, worshipped at Orchomenus, without whose aid no delightful or skillful thing is accomplished; invoked to bless Asopichus's victory.

    songful queens, Graces of splendid Orchomenus, guardians of the ancient race of Minyans, hear me;
    chapter 14
    and you, Thalia, passionate for dance and song, having looked with favor on this victory procession, stepping lightly in honor of gracious fortune.
    chapter 14

    TheaetetusClassical · Greek

    Goddesses of charm invoked by Socrates in an oath before he speculates about Protagoras's hidden teaching.

    By the Graces!
    theaetetus

    On BenefitsImperial · Latin

    The three mythological Graces, whose number, appearance, and genealogy are discussed at length as an allegory for the cycle of benefits

    why the Graces are three in number, and why they are sisters, and why with hands interlinked, and why smiling, and young, and maidens, and clad in loose and transparent robes.
    book 1

    SymposiumClassical · Greek

    Divine figures proposed as graceful subjects for the entertainers' dance.

    but if the young people were to have a flute accompaniment and dance figures depicting the Graces, the Horae, and the Nymphs, I believe that they would be far less wearied themselves and that the charms of the banquet would be greatly enhanced.
    chapter 7