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ETYMOLOGY DICTIONARY:
- Berenice
- fem. proper name, from Latin Berenice, from Macedonian Greek
Berenike (classical Greek Pherenike), lit. "bringer of
victory," from pherein "to bring" (see infer)
+ nike "victory." The constellation Berenice's hair is
from the story of the pilfered locks of the wife of Ptolemy
Euergetes, king of Egypt, c.248 B.C.E., which the queen cut off as
an offering to Venus. The constellation features a dim but visible
star cluster. But the earliest use of the phrase in astronomy in
English was as a name for the star Canopus (1601).
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