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EURYDICE (Evpuiixq)

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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 953 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EURYDICE (Evpuiixq) , in. See also:Greek See also:mythology, the wife of See also:Orpheus (q.v.). She was the daughter of See also:Nereus and See also:Doris, and died from the bite of a See also:serpent when fleeing from See also:Aristaeus, who wished to offer her violence (See also:Virgil, Georgics, iv. 454-527; See also:Ovid, Metam. x. 1 ff.).

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