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Literature | Hair devoted to Proserpine Till a lock of hair is devoted to Proserpine, she refuses to release the soul from the dying body. When Dido mounted the funeral pile, she lingered in suffering till Juno sent Iris to cut off a lock of her hair. Thanatos did the same for Alcestis, when she gave her life for her husband. And in all sacrifices a forelock was first cut off from the head of the victim as an offering to the black queen. "Hunc ego Diti Sacrum jussa fero, teque isto corpore solvo.' Sic ait, et dextra crinem secat ... ... atque in ventos vita recessit. Virgil: Æneid, iv. 702-5. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Crosswords: HAIR DEVOTED TO PROSERPINE |
| Specialty definitions using "HAIR DEVOTED TO PROSERPINE": Hair devoted to Proserpine. (references) |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 41 49 52 44 45 56 4F 54 45 44 54 4F 50 52 4F 53 45 52 50 49 4E 45 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01000001 01001001 01010010 00100000 01000100 01000101 01010110 01001111 01010100 01000101 01000100 00100000 01010100 01001111 00100000 01010000 01010010 01001111 01010011 01000101 01010010 01010000 01001001 01001110 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H A I R   D E V O T E D   T O   P R O S E R P I N E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0041 0049 0052 0044 0045 0056 004F 0054 0045 0044 0054 004F 0050 0052 004F 0053 0045 0052 0050 0049 004E 0045 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4235435223839564954393825449250524953395250434839 |
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