dido in English

noun
1
perform mischievous tricks or deeds.
When Blackhawk began to cut up didos you had storekeepers and squirrel hunters all marching together in your company.
noun
1
(in the Aeneid ) the queen and founder of Carthage, who fell in love with the shipwrecked Aeneas and killed herself when he deserted her.

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1. Dido to Aeneas, from The Archaics Date: 1962–66

2. 16 Dido: a mischievous prank or antic; a caper.

3. Plotting to abandon Carthage, he allows Achates, his fellow European, to disparage Dido as a "ticing Dame" in the scene that comes closely after he has made love to Dido and promised "Never to leave these new-upreared walls / Whiles Dido lives and rules in Juno's town" (4.3.31; 3.4.49-50).

4. Rollo and Dido: return of the 50m-selling siblings who Blundered into stardom

5. In Vergil's Aeneid, Cupid prompts Dido to fall in love with Aeneas, with tragic results

6. Dido was born at St Mary Abbots hospital in Kensington, London, on Christmas Day 1971.

7. In this chapter, only the Mark II Mounting, as found in Dido class cruisers, is discussed.

8. DIDO and PLUTO themselves were shut down in 1990 and the fuel, moderator and some ancillary buildings removed.

9. In the video, Dido has not paid her bills, and the government comes to tear down her house.

10. Hamlet's story told through "Aeneas' tale to Dido" in this scene is a synecdoche of Hamlet, the play.

11. Dido, who seems oblivious to the fact that her house has been barricaded, is seen simply singing the song.

12. Shakespeare Alludes to them when the players are acting out their scene, as Hamlet states, “‘Twas Aeneas’ tale to Dido” (2.2.419)

13. Supergirl: Fan Film Series (DC Comics/Superheroine/Short movie/Fan Film): With Ann Adeling, Andrey Babenko, Diana Chechel, Danil Dido.

14. Obviously this actress has one of the loveliest faces in film today, and apparently so did Dido Elizabeth Belle (1761-1804.

15. Belle is inspired by the true story of Dido Elizabeth Belle (Gugu Mbatha-Raw), the illegitimate mixed race daughter of Admiral Sir John Lindsay (Matthew Goode)

16. Legend holds that Carthage was founded around 825 BC by Queen Dido who had fled from the city of Tyre to escape her murderous brother Pygmalion

17. Inspired by the true story of Dido Elizabeth Belle, this powerful film stars Gugu Mbatha-Raw as the mixed-race daughter of a British Navy officer raised by her wealthy …

18. Inspired by the true story of Dido Elizabeth Belle, this powerful film stars Gugu Mbatha-Raw as the mixed-race daughter of a British Navy officer raised by h

19. The collection was put together by her management team, Nettwerk, and released promotionally in late 1995, in order to gain interest from record companies so that Dido could be signed to a major record label.

20. In 1995 Solhi al-Wadi conducted the first-ever performance of an opera in Syria, Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, which was performed at the ancient Roman amphitheaters of Bosra and Palmyra for huge crowds of enthusiastic listeners.

21. The mixed-race daughter, Dido Elizabeth Belle (Gugu Mbatha-Raw), of Royal Navy Captain Sir John Lindsay (Matthew Goode) is raised by aristocratic Great-uncle Lord William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield (Tom Wilkinson) in eighteenth century England.

22. According to local authorities in Obaye, Colonel Abati Albert and his deputy Colonel Dido Jacques deploy a unit from the base at Obaye, led by Captains Franck and Augustin, to enforce a tax of 5 kg per pit per day as well as to enforce collective workdays, or “salongo”, for the military in which they can gather more than 100 kg per pit.