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Muse

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Muse

In Greco-Roman religion and myth, any of a group of sister goddesses, daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne (Memory). A festival was held in their honour every four years near Mount Helicon, the centre of their cult in Greece. They probably began as the patron goddesses of poets, though later their range was extended to include all the liberal arts and sciences. Nine Muses are usually named: Calliope (heroic or epic poetry), Clio (history), Erato (lyric or love poetry), Euterpe (music or flutes), Melpomene (tragedy), Polyhymnia (sacred poetry or mime), Terpsichore (dancing and choral song), Thalia (comedy), and Urania (astronomy).


(1) (MultiUser Simulation Environment, MultiUser Shared Environment) See MUD.

(2) See BABY.


(language)Muse - OR-parallel logic programming.


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deducam Musas'; `for I shall be the first, if I live, to bring the Muse into my country.
In school I can look at her and muse over days departed.
But she would often clasp her hands behind her head and muse when she was supposed to be working hard.
 
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