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SYTHEO. Sychaeus was Dido's Phoenician husband. Pigmalion, her brother, envied Sychaeus's wealth and arranged to have him murdered. Sychaeus's ghost warned Dido to flee, and she went to Africa where she founded Carthage (Aeneid I.340-360).

Sytheo is Dido's deceased husband, LGW 1005. [Dido]

The form, a variant of Italian Sicheo, occurs in final rhyming position, LGW 1005.


Virgil, Aeneid, ed. and trans. H.R. Fairclough, I: 264-267. T
From CHAUCER NAME DICTIONARY
Copyright © 1988, 1996 Jacqueline de Weever
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