Proserpina

How to use Proserpina in a sentence

• Neptune also loved the goddess Ceres, and followed her during the long time that she spent in search of her daughter Proserpina.

  Stories of Old Greece and Rome | Emilie Kip Baker

• She sat for a long time on a stone by the roadside, mourning her lost Proserpina, until a little girl came by, driving some goats.

  Stories of Old Greece and Rome | Emilie Kip Baker

• The patient old earth smiled again on Proserpina's return, for then her mother gave the blighted vegetation a redoubled care.

  Stories of Old Greece and Rome | Emilie Kip Baker

• Hecate, the goddess of the lower world, sometimes identified with Proserpina, and sometimes with Diana.

  The Aeneid of Virgil | Virgil

• Moreover, as we have already seen, even Chaucer called the fairy-king Pluto and the queen Proserpina.

  The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream' | Compiled by Frank Sidgwick