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Ops (ŏps), in Roman religion, goddess of harvests. She was the wife of Saturn, by whom she bore Jupiter and Juno. At her festivals, the Opiconsivia and the Opalia, held in August and December, respectively, she was worshiped as a goddess of sowing and reaping and was associated with Consus, god of crops. She was later identified with the Greek Rhea Rhea, in Greek religion and mythology, a Titan. She was the wife and sister of Kronos , by whom she bore Zeus, Poseidon, Pluto, Hestia, Hera, and Demeter. She eventually helped Zeus overthrow Kronos. ..... Click the link for more information. . OPS(1) (Open Publication Structure) An open standard for electronic books and Web publishing from the International Digital Publishing Forum (www.idpf.org). Introduced in 2007 as the successor to the Open eBook format, OPS publications are marked up in XHTML or Digital Talking Book (DTBook) and reside in an Open Container Format (OCF). The OCF is a zipped archive with an .epub extension that contains the marked up publication, related images and an Open Packaging Format (OPF) file that provides an index to all the files in the OCF. See Open eBook. Ops Sabine goddess of fecundity. [Rom. Myth.: Brewer Dictionary, 782] See : Fertility
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A good old woman, Euryclea, daughter of Ops, the son of Pisenor, went before him with a couple of blazing torches. However some tradition they dispers'd Among the Heathen of thir purchase got, And Fabl'd how the Serpent, whom they calld OPHION with EURYNOME, the wide- Encroaching EVE perhaps, had first the rule Of high OLYMPUS, thence by SATURN driv'n And OPS, ere yet DICTAEAN JOVE was born. |
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