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, one of the muses who presided over lyric, tender, and amorous poetry. She is represented as crowned with roses and myrtle, holding in her right hand a lyre, and a lute in her left, musical instruments of which she is considered by some as the inventre . Love is sometimes placed by her side holding a lighted flambeau, while she herself appears with a thoughtful, but oftener with a gay and animated look. She was invoked by lovers, especially in the month of April, which, among the Romans, was more particularly devoted to love. Apollo dor us , bk. 10 .— Virgil , Æneid , bk. 7 , li. 37 .— Ovid , de Ars Am at or i a , bk. 2 , li. 425 .――One of the Nereides. Apollo dor us , bk. 1 , ch. 2 .――One of the Dryades, wife of Arcas king of Arcadia. Pausanias , bk. 8 , ch. 4 .――One of the Danaides, who married Bromius.――A queen of the Armenians, after the death of Ariobarzanes, . Tacitus , Annals , bk. 2 , ch. 4 .