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Pyramus and Thisbe
{i} (Mythology) young woman of Babylon who killed herself after she found her lover Pyramus dead

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Pyramus and Thisbe
in ancient Roman stories, a pair of lovers who killed themselves because each thought the other one was dead. They are best known from the play about them which Bottom and his friends perform in A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare. Hero and heroine of a Babylonian love story related in Ovid's Metamorphoses. Their parents forbade them to meet, so they communicated through a hole in the wall between their two houses before at last deciding to run away together. They agreed to meet at a mulberry tree. Arriving first, Thisbe was scared away by a lion, which shredded the veil she dropped when she fled. Pyramus, finding the veil, believed her dead and stabbed himself; she returned and, finding Pyramus dying, killed herself. The fruit of the mulberry tree, white until then, was stained dark purple by the lovers' blood
Pyramus and Thisbe
{i} (Mythology) two young lovers from Babylon who were not allowed to marry and committed suicide (Pyramus, thinking Thisbe has been killed by a lion and Thisbe, after she found her lover Pyramus dead)
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