All 8 Uses of
Isis
in
Antony and Cleopatra
- —O, let him marry a woman that cannot go, sweet Isis, I beseech thee!
Scene 1.2 *Isis = Egyptian goddess of fertility and more
- Good Isis, hear me this prayer, though thou deny me a matter of more weight; good Isis, I beseech thee!
Scene 1.2
- Good Isis, hear me this prayer, though thou deny me a matter of more weight; good Isis, I beseech thee!
Scene 1.2
- Dear goddess, hear that prayer of the people! for, as it is a heartbreaking to see a handsome man loose-wived, so it is a deadly sorrow to behold a foul knave uncuckolded: therefore, dear Isis, keep decorum, and fortune him accordingly!
Scene 1.2
- By Isis, I will give thee bloody teeth If thou with Caesar paragon again My man of men.
Scene 1.5
- O Isis!
Scene 3.3
- Isis else defend, And serving you so long!
Scene 3.3
- His sons he there proclaim'd the kings of kings: Great Media, Parthia, and Armenia, He gave to Alexander; to Ptolemy he assign'd Syria, Cilicia, and Phoenicia: she In the habiliments of the goddess Isis That day appear'd; and oft before gave audience, As 'tis reported, so.
Scene 3.6
Definitions:
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(1)
(Isis) Egyptian mythology: an important goddess of fertility, protector of sailors, and more; also took the role of goddess of the dead and of funeral rights when her husband, Osiris died
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
ISIS is also used to reference the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (or just the Islamic State). It is a transnational militant Islamist terrorist group and former unrecognized quasi-state.