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  • proper noun Greek mythology The five Greek gods of the "Wandering Stars", (i.e. "planets"), (Phainon (Saturn), Phaethon (Jupiter), Pyroeis (Mars), Eosphoros/Hesperos (Venus), and Stilbon (Mercury). They were the sons of the Eos (goddess of the dawn) and Astraeus (god of the dusk), and their siblings were the four Anemoi ("winds").
  • proper noun poetic the planets

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