dido

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My duty draws me:--point out the dido, and I will look at it through that one eye And he says, "I was a talkin' about the walls of this room And I says, "Why couldn't you say so in the first place?

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  1. noun A mischievous prank or antic; a caper.

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  • Consequence: You Win Some, You Lose Some dido to likke omnis lol seriously. when the chick is singin i kinda laughd ... —  Prefix
  • In Sophocles 'tragedy, this is precisely the flaw in Ajax's morality. aeschylus ajax aristote athens dido etnography euripide hero herodotus hippolytos history homer iphigenia judges linguistic lloyd-joneswilson myth performance philology philosophy plato pragmatic religion ritual sophocles suicide theater tragedy trugrede vergil war CiteULike organises scholarly (or academic) papers or literature and provides bibliographic (which means it makes bibliographies) for universities and higher education establishments. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • The Lament for Ajax: Sophocles 'Ajax 628-31 aeschylus ajax aristote athens dido dirge etnography euripide first-stasimon funeral hero herodotus hippolytos history homer iconography iphigenia judges linguistic linos lloyd-joneswilson myth performance philology philosophy plato pragmatic religion ritual sophocles suicide theater tragedy trugrede vergil war CiteULike organises scholarly (or academic) papers or literature and provides bibliographic (which means it makes bibliographies) for universities and higher education establishments. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • September 15th, 2007 05: 31 dido. dido. dido. dido. thank you for the show. carie —  haha.nu
  • My duty draws me:--point out the dido, and I will look at it through that one eye And he says, "I was a talkin' about the walls of this room And I says, "Why couldn't you say so in the first place? —  Sweet Cicely — or Josiah Allen as a Politician
 

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  1. Middle English dido; in allusion to the familiar tale of the trick played by Dido, the legendary queen of Carthage, in bargaining for as much land as could be covered by a hide, and cutting the hide into a long thin strip so as to inclose a large tract: L. Dido, Greek Διδώ.
 

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