Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Proser’pina or Pros’erpine (3 syl.).

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Proselytes (3 syl.)

Proserpine’s Divine Calidore.

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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.

Proser’pina or Pros’erpine (3 syl.).

One day, as she was amusing herself in the meadows of Sicily, Pluto seized her and carried her off in his chariot to the infernal regions for his bride. In her terror she dropped some of the lilies she had been gathering, and they turned to daffodils.

“O Proserpina,

For the flowers now, that frighted thou let’st fall

From Dis’s waggon! daffodils,

That come before the swallow dares, and take

The winds of March with beauty.”

Shakespeare: Winter’s Tale, iv. 4.

Proselytes (3 syl.)

Proserpine’s Divine Calidore.

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