aoede

Updated: April 30, 2025

As to the Muses, there were at first four Thelxiope, Aoede, Arche, and Melete daughters of the second Jupiter; afterward there were nine, daughters of the third Jupiter and Mnemosyne; there were also nine others, having the same appellations, born of Pierus and Antiopa, by the poets usually called Pierides and Pieriæ.

Marcus Tullius Cicero - Cicero's Tusculan Disputations: Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth

I shall make two divisions: first, Piquant Facts for the Manufacture of Similes, and, second, Piquant Expressions to be introduced as occasion may require. Write now!" and I wrote as he dictated. "PIQUANT FACTS FOR SIMILES. 'There were originally but three Muses Melete, Mneme, Aoede meditation, memory, and singing. You may make a good deal of that little fact if properly worked.

Edgar Allan Poe - The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4