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CORNU COPIAE

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 179 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CORNU COPIAE , later CORNUCOPIA (" See also:horn of plenty "), a horn; generally See also:twisted, filled with See also:fruit and See also:flowers, or an See also:ornament representing it. It was used as a See also:symbol of prosperity and abundance, and hence in See also:works of See also:art it is placed in the hands of See also:Plutus, See also:Fortuna and similar divinities (for the mythological See also:account see See also:AMALTHEIA). The symbol probably originated in the practice of using the horns of oxen and goats as drinking-cups; hence the rhyton (drinking-horn) is often confounded with the cornu copiae. For its See also:representation in works of art, in which it is very See also:common, especially in those belonging to the See also:Roman See also:period, see See also:article in Daremberg and Saglio's Dictionnaire See also:des Antiquites.

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