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dido

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1. dido - Noun

2. dido - Adverb

3. Dido - Proper noun

Meaning

A shrewd trick; an antic; a caper.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Aeneas tells Dido about the fall of Troy, by Pierre-Narcisse Guérin After a brief but fierce storm sent up against the group at Juno 's request, Aeneas and his fleet made landfall at Carthage after six years of wanderings. Source: Internet

Aeneas had a year-long affair with the Carthaginian queen Dido (also known as Elissa), who proposed that the Trojans settle in her land and that she and Aeneas reign jointly over their peoples. Source: Internet

Aeneas is inclined to return Dido's love, and during a hunting expedition, a storm drives them into a cave in which Aeneas and Dido presumably have sex, an event that Dido takes to indicate a marriage between them. Source: Internet

Aeneas falls in love with Dido, delaying his ultimate fate of traveling to Italy. Source: Internet

Aeneas descended into the underworld where he met Dido (who turned away from him to return to her husband) and his father, who showed him the future of his descendants and thus the history of Rome. Source: Internet

A seventeenth century popular broadside ballad also appears to recount events from books 1-4 of the Aeneid, focusing mostly on the relationship between Aeneas and Dido. Source: Internet

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