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ANNE1. Anna was Dido's sister and confidante. She advised Dido to accept Aeneas as lover since she had no husband and could not love Iarbus, the Gaetulian king (Aeneid IV.1-53).

Dido blames Anne for her suffering when Eneas secretly sails away, HF I.364-371; LGW 1343-1350. [Dido: Eneas]

The name appears twice in medial positions, LGW 1178, 1182; three times in final rhyming position, HF I.367, LGW 1168, 1343.


Virgil, Aeneid, ed. and trans. H.R. Fairclough, I: 396-399.
From CHAUCER NAME DICTIONARY
Copyright © 1988, 1996 Jacqueline de Weever
Published by Garland Publishing, Inc., New York and London.

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