Metanira

or Met·a·nei·ra

[ met-uh-nahy-ruh ]

noun

, Classical Mythology.

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

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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So Queen Metanira ran to the door, with the poor wailing baby in her arms, and besought Ceres to take charge of it, or, at least, to tell her what would do it good.

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But Queen Metanira, as was very natural, had a great curiosity to know precisely what the nurse did to her child.

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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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The queen—her name was Metanira—was desirous of finding a nurse; and when she beheld a woman of matronly aspect coming up the palace steps, she thought, in her own mind, that here was the very person whom she needed.

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