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Accordingly she visits the witch, Dipsas, by whose magic aid the youth, found resting on a bank of lunary, is bewitched to sleep until old age.
The Growth of English Drama Arnold Wynne
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Tellus is willing to marry Corsites, Eumenides wins the consent of sharp-tongued Semele to be his bride, Dipsas and Geron agree to reconciliation, and Bagoa, saved from the blasting curse of her angry mistress, weds Sir Tophas, the eccentric and ludicrous knight whose folly is thrust into the play whenever there is a danger of the main plot becoming tedious.
The Growth of English Drama Arnold Wynne
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Were the relation of circumstance and individual hidden, no one would know from a given speech whether Cynthia, Tellus, or Dipsas was speaking; nor would
The Growth of English Drama Arnold Wynne
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The same structural outline of 1-8-15 appears in _Amores_ I and III -- the opening and closing poems of both books are concerned with Ovid's verse, while the eighth poem of each book stands somewhat apart from the other poems: _Am_ I viii is about the procuress Dipsas, while III ix (the eighth poem in the book after the removal of the spurious fifth poem) is the elegy on the death of Tibullus.
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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Then Bagoa, the servant of Dipsas, betrays the secret of her mistress's crime.
The Growth of English Drama Arnold Wynne
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Eumenides, the loyal friend of Endymion, seeks everywhere for the means to awaken his comrade, until he finds a clue in the magic fountain of Geron, husband to old Dipsas, but banished by her wicked power.
The Growth of English Drama Arnold Wynne
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Dipsas and Tellus are summoned before Cynthia, who now hears for the first time the story of Endymion's devotion to her.
The Growth of English Drama Arnold Wynne
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This, for example, is from the lips of the old hag, Dipsas, as, spreading her enchantments around her victim, she mutters over his head the curse of a blasted life.
The Growth of English Drama Arnold Wynne
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Tellus determines to be revenged, and, by the aid of a sorceress Dipsas, sends the youth into a deep sleep from which no one can awaken him.
John Lyly John Dover Wilson 1925
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Other interests are hinted at, rather than developed, by the infatuation of Sir Tophas for Dipsas, and by the history of the latter's husband.
John Lyly John Dover Wilson 1925
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