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  • Themistocles, having escaped this great danger, in admiration of the goodness of the goddess that appeared to him, built, in memory of it, a temple in the city of Magnesia, which he dedicated to Dindymene, Mother of the gods, in which he consecrated and devoted his daughter Mnesiptolema to her service.

    The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

  • Lost sheep that err rebellious to the lady Dindymene;

    The Poems and Fragments of Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus

  • Themistocles, having escaped this great danger, in admiration of the goodness of the goddess that appeared to him, built, in memory of it, a temple in the city of Magnesia, which he dedicated to Dindymene, Mother of the gods, in which he consecrated and devoted his daughter Mnesiptolema to her service.

    Themistocles Plutarch 1909

  • Helgeland, and which made the groves and grottoes of Phrygia sacred to Dindymene.

    St. Elmo 1872

  • In every age, and among all people -- from the Parsee devotees and the Gosains of India to the Pantheism of Bruno, Spinoza, and New-England's "Illuminati" -- nature has been apotheosized; and the heart of the blacksmith's untutored darling stirred with the same emotions of awe and adoration which thrilled the worshipers of Hertha, when the vailed chariot stood in Helgeland, and which made the groves and grottoes of Phrygia sacred to Dindymene.

    St. Elmo. A Novel. Augusta Jane 1867

  • Having thus escaped from danger, he built a temple to Dindymene at

    Plutarch's Lives, Volume I 46-120? Plutarch 1839

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