All heavenly gifts and riches lockèd are,
More rich than pearls of Ind.
Spenser, Colin Clout’s Come Home Again (1595).
Urania, daughter of the king of Sicily, who fell in love with Sir Guy (eldest son of St. George, the patron saint of England).--R. Johnson, The Seven Champions, etc., iii. 2 (1617).
Ura´nian Venus, i.e., “Celestial Venus,” the patroness of chaste and pure love.
Venus pandêmos or popularis is the Venus of the animal passion called “love.”
Venus etaira or amīca is the Venus of criminal sensuality.
The seal was Cupid bent above a scroll,
And o’er his head Uranian Venus hung
And raised the blinding bandage from his eyes.