Those famous lines of the Greek Anthology with which a fading beauty dedicates her mirror at the shrine of a goddess reveal a wise attitude: `` Venus, take my votive glass, Since I am not what I was, What from this day I shall be, Venus, let me never see ''.

She was the pursuer as clearly as was Venus in Shakespeare's poem.

Steady radiation which was presumably of thermal origin was observed from Venus at 3.15 and 9.4 cm, and from Mars and Jupiter at 3.15 cm in 1956 ( Mayer, McCullough, and Sloanaker, 1958, A, B, C ), and from Saturn at 3.75 cm in 1957 ( Drake and Ewen, 1958 ).

Since some of the Roman months were named in honor of divinities, and as April was sacred to the goddess Venus, the Festum Veneris et Fortunae Virilis being held on the first day, it has been suggested that Aprilis was originally her month Aphrilis, from her equivalent Greek goddess name Aphrodite ( Aphros ), or from the Etruscan name Apru.

This image of a fully mature " Venus rising from the sea " ( Venus Anadyomene ) was one of the iconic representations of Aphrodite, made famous in a much-admired painting by Apelles, now lost, but described in the Natural History of Pliny the Elder.

The following year he was put in charge of the Greek games that were staged in honor of the Temple of Venus Genetrix, built by Julius Caesar.

A marriage of sorts is arranged between Dido and Aeneas at the instigation of Juno, who was told of the fact that her favorite city would eventually be defeated by the Trojans ' descendants, and Aeneas's mother Venus ( the Roman adaptation of Aphrodite ), who realizes that her son and his company need a temporary reprieve to reinforce themselves for the journey to come.

However, the messenger god Mercury was sent by Jupiter and Venus to remind Aeneas of his journey and his purpose, compelling him to leave secretly.

One was the celebrated group representing the Parting of Venus and Adonis.

* Pictures of the cave where it is believed by Christians that Jesus was buried and from which it is believed he resurrected and a picture of the remains of the walls of the Temple of Venus previously constructed on that site by the Emperor Hadrian

These cycles would have been of astrological and ritual significance as Venus was associated with Quetzalcoatl or Xolotl.

A great deal of her work, including Delta of Venus and Little Birds, was published posthumously.

A statue of Venus in a bikini was found in a cupboard in the southwest corner in Casa della Venere, others were found in the front hall.

A statue of Venus was recovered from the tablinum of the House of Julia Felix, and another from an atrium at the garden at Via Dell ' Abbondanza.

Toba explained that it was not possible for the staff of Cowboy Bebop to have a dramatic rooftop scene occur on Venus, so " we ended up normally falling back to Mars ".

Although the term " dominatrix " was not used, the classic example in literature of the female dominant-male submissive relationship is portrayed in the 1870 novella Venus in Furs by Austrian writer Leopold von Sacher-Masoch.

The flute, one of several found, was found in the Hohle Fels cavern next to the Venus of Hohle Fels and a short distance from the oldest known human carving.

The Norse name for the planet Venus was Friggjarstjarna ' Frigg's star '.

Uzzā was worshipped by the Nabataeans, who equated her with the Graeco-Roman goddesses Aphrodite, Urania, Venus and Caelestis.

The mission was re-profiled to use several gravitational slingshots, referred to as the " VEEGA " or Venus Earth Earth Gravity Assist maneuvers, to provide the additional velocity required to reach its destination.

Agoracritus, indignant at his defeat, made some slight alterations so as to change his Venus into a Nemesis ( the goddess of retribution or revenge ), and sold it to the people of Rhamnus on the condition that it should never be set up in Athens.

The second Marquess envisaged a sculpture gallery at the house, which never came to fruition ; four marbles by Joseph Nollekens were carried out to his commission, in expectation of the gallery ; the ' Diana, signed and dated 1778, is now at the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Juno, Venus and Minerva, grouped with a Roman antique marble of Paris, are at the J. Paul Getty Museum.

The mural of Venus from Pompeii was never seen by Botticelli, the painter of The Birth of Venus, but may have been a Roman copy of the then famous painting by Apelles which Lucian mentioned.

The Galileo engineering review speculated ( but was never able to prove conclusively ) that this longer flight time coupled with the stronger sunlight near Venus caused lubricant in Galileo's main antenna to fail, forcing the use of a much smaller backup antenna with a consequent lowering of data rate from the spacecraft.

* Three other DJs at the station are mentioned, but ( with one exception ) never seen: Moss Steiger has the graveyard shift after Venus and is mentioned as having attempted suicide at least twice ; Rex Erhardt ( who was finally seen in the fourth season episode " Rumors ", and played by Sam Anderson ) hosts a program after Dr. Johnny Fever's morning show ; and " Dean the Dream " has the afternoon drive slot.

" Later criticism, however, is much more objective on the reasons why the poem has been dated in 1382, the main reason given in lines 117-118 of the poem itself: " As wisly as I sawe the, northe northe west / When I begane my sweuene for to write " for according to John M. Manly ( 1913: 279-90 ) Venus is never strictly in the position " north-north-west ," but it can be easily thought to be so when it reaches its extreme northern point ".

There are some notable differences however, such as the inclusion of the infamous " bathtub sequence ", a scene never filmed in which a television rises from Max Renn's bathtub like a Venus in a conch shell.

Additionally, The Quine Tapes contains songs that the band only rarely performed by this time, such as " Sunday Morning ", " Venus in Furs " and " The Black Angel's Death Song ", along with other obscurities such as " Over You ", " Ride into the Sun ", and " Follow the Leader ", which had never even been bootlegged in its original form.

There was some controversy about Hell's observations of the transit of Venus because he stayed in Norway for eight months, collecting non-astronomical scientific data about the arctic regions for a planned encyclopedia ( which never appeared, in part due to the suppression of the Jesuit order ).

Felt were a 1980s British alternative rock band led by Lawrence, whose surname was never listed in any credits or press ; the band's name was inspired by Tom Verlaine's emphasis of the word " felt " in the Television song " Venus ".

The observation over such long periods of time has never been done in previous missions to Venus, and is key to a better understanding of the atmospheric dynamics.

After the Second World War, a prototype codenamed Venus was made with flat-four 747 cc engine never reached production.

Two more films were planned, Bermuda Encounter and Olympic Venus, about the first Olympic swimmers, however, these were never made.

It is the brightest object in the sky after the Sun and the Moon, outshining the planets Saturn and Jupiter but, while these rise high in the sky, Venus never does.

Of course ' embarrassing ' matters can never be entirely excluded, for alma Dione praecipite nostrum est, quod pudet, inquit, opus '..." what you blush to tell ", says nourishing Venus, " is the most important part of the whole matter "'.

* In Ray Bradbury's " Death-by-Rain " ( 1950 ), a short story later published as " The Long Rain " in the 1951 short story collection The Illustrated Man, four astronauts search for a man-made shelter, called a " sun dome ", on the surface of Venus, as it never stops raining.

Since Mercury never appears more than one sign from the sun in either direction, it was deemed to rule the two signs on either side of Leo and Cancer ( Virgo and Gemini ), and since Venus can never be found more than two signs from the Sun, it obtained the rulership of Libra and Taurus.

Originally, Wiseman never planned to make his presence or Venus ' presence known to Snake and Dalton.

Signals had been bounced off of Venus before, but never received back clearly enough to be " immediately detectable ".

Using a telescope, Galileo was able to observe Venus going through a full set of phases, something prohibited by the Ptolemaic system ( which would never allow Venus to be fully lit from the perspective of the Earth or more than semi-circular ).

While there is little or no water on Venus, there is a phenomenon which is quite similar to snow.

But the situation is quite different for Mercury and Venus.

They are used to the tropical jungles of Venus and find Earth cold, but are quite savage.

The sexual topics covered are quite varied from pedophilia to lesbianism and many of the same characters that appear in Delta of Venus, her first published book of erotica, make appearances here.