Amongst the deities from the upper chamber a mortal came, the light, lewd woman, who had bared her charms to live for ever here in marble, in counterfeit of the Venus Pandēmos.--Ouida, _Ariadnê_, i. 1. GIBSON’S VENUS, slightly tinted, was shown in the International Exhibition of 1862. _Venus_, the highest throw with the four _tali_ or three _tesseræ_. The best cast of the _tali_ (or four-sided dice) was four different numbers; but the best cast of the _tesseræ_ (or ordinary dice) was three sixes. The worst throw was called _canis_--three aces in _tesseræ_ and four aces in _tali_. _Venus_ (_The Isle of_), a paradise created by “Divine Love” for the Lusian heroes. Here Uranian Venus gave Vasco de Gama the empire of the sea. This isle is not far from the mountains of Imāus, whence the Ganges and Indus derive their source.--Camoens, _Lusiad_, ix. (1572). ⁂Similar descriptions of paradise are: “the gardens of Alcinŏus” (_Odyssey_, vii.); “the island of Circê” (_Odyssey_, x.); Virgil’s “Elysium” (_Æneid_, vi.); “the island and palace of Alci´na” (_Orlando Furioso_, vi., vii.); “the country of Logistilla” (_Orlando Furioso_, x.); “Paradise,” visited by Astolpho (_Orlando Furioso_, xxxiv.); “the island of Armi´da” (_Jerusalem Delivered_); “the bower of Acrasia” (_Faëry Queen_); “the palace with its forty doors” (_Arabian Nights_, “Third Calendar”), etc. _Venus_ (_Ura´nian_), the impersonation of divine love; the presiding deity of the Lusians.--Camoens, _Lusiad_ (1572). =Venus and Adonis.= Adōnis, a most beautiful boy, was greatly beloved by Venus and Proserpine. Jupiter decided that he should live four months with one and four months with the other goddess, and the rest of the year he might do what he liked. One day he was killed by a wild boar during a chase, and Venus was so inconsolable at the loss that the infernal gods allowed the boy to spend six months of the year with Venus on the earth, but the other six he was to spend in hell. Of course, this is an allegory of the sun, which is six months above and six months below the equator. ⁂ Shakespeare has a poem called _Venus and Adonis_ (1593), in which Adonis is made cold and passionless, but Venus ardent and sensual. =Venus of Cleom´enes= (4 _syl._), now called the “Venus de’ Medici” or “Venus de Medicis.” =Venusberg=, the mountain of fatal delights. Here Tannhäuser tarried, and when Pope Urban refused to grant him absolution, he returned thither, to be never more seen.--_German Legend._ =Ver´done= (2 _syl._), nephew to Champernal, the husband of Lami´ra.--Beaumont and Fletcher, _The Little French Lawyer_ (1647). =Verdugo=, captain under the governor of Segovia.--Beaumont and Fletcher, _The Pilgrim_ (1621). =Vere= (_Mr. Richard_), laird of Ellieslaw, a Jacobite conspirator.