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DIDO
GENDER:
Feminine
USAGE:
Roman Mythology
Meaning & History
Meaning unknown, possibly "virgin" in Phoenician. Dido, also called
Elissa
, was the queen of Carthage in
Virgil
's 'Aeneid'. She burned herself to death when Aeneas left her.
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