Metanira

American  

[met-uh-nahy-ruh] / ˌmɛt əˈnaɪ rə /

Or Metaneira

noun

Classical Mythology.

1. queen of Eleusis, who took Demeter in to nurse her child.

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Example Sentences

But that it was the fashion for liver to be wrapped up in a caul is stated by Hegesander the Delphian in his Memorials, where he says that Metanira the courtesan, having got a piece of the lungs of the animal in the liver which was thus wrapped up, as soon as she had unfolded the outer coat of fat and seen it, cried out— I am undone, the tunic's treacherous folds Have now entangled me to my destruction.

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Saying these words, she kissed the little prince Demopho�n, and sighed to think what he had lost, and took her departure without heeding Queen Metanira, who entreated her to remain, and cover up the child among the hot embers as often as she pleased.

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In the course of her wanderings she arrived at Eleusis, where she was honourably entertained by Keleos, the ruler of the country, with whom, and his wife Metanira, she consented to remain in order to watch over the education of Demophon, who had just been born to the aged king and whom she undertook to make immortal.

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Detected one night by Metanira, she was compelled to reveal herself as Demeter, the goddess.

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Yet he had not been utterly discouraged; he strove against the Metanira of circumstance; he did his best to struggle free from the mortal bonds that bound him; and, as the child Demophoon mourned for the great goddess that had nurtured him, refusing to be comforted, so did he turn from the base consolations of the senses and the appetites, and beheld ever before his sight the ineffable majesty of that Mater Dolorosa who once and for ever had anointed him as her own.

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