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Ancient / Vergil / Aeneid / Book IV: Love of Dido and Aeneas, after Aeneas's departure Dido kills herself / vv. 642-666: Dido stabs herself with Aeneas's sword / Dido stabs herself, standing or kneeling, with no funeral pyre in sight
Modern / Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun / Roman de la Rose / Cycles / Oxford, Bodleian Library, Douce 371
Modern / Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun / Roman de la Rose / Episodes / Suicide of Dido, as recounted by Vielle
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Date
1400 (circa)
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Oxford, Bodleian Library, Douce 371
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