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Danʹace (3 syl.)

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A coin placed by the Greeks in the mouth of the dead to pay their passage across the ferry of the Lower World.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Damson
Damyan
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Danaë
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Dances
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