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View Name: Dido


DIDO
GENDER: Feminine
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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