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Eurydicb

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EURYDICB (E6pu5ui>), in Greek mythology, the wife of Orpheus (?.».)- She was the daughter of Nereus and Doris, and died from the bite of a serpent when fleeing from Aristaeus, who wished to offer her violence (Virgil, Georgia, iv. 454-527; Ovid, iietam. x. i ff.).