Meaning of crīnis | Babel Free

Definitions

1. hair of the head, lock of hair, plume
   declension-3
2. tail of a comet
   declension-3

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Examples

“Nōndum illī flāvum Prōserpina vertice crīnem”

Proserpina had not yet taken that lock of blonde hair from [Dido’s] head, [nor] condemned [the queen’s] life to Stygian Orcus. (Frieze, Henry [1876], Virgil’s Aeneid, 2nd ed., pg 463: “A lock of hair is cut from the forehead of the dying as a sign of dedication to the gods below.”)

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