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Ocnus

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Ocnus,
the cord of eaten by ass as quickly as it is made. [Gk. and Rom. Myth.: Wheeler, 767]
See : Futility


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The Latin poem relates that the prophetess bears a child, Ocnus, who founds the city and gives it his mother''s name: «qui muros matrisque dedit tibi, Mantua, nomen» («who gave you walls and the name of his mother, O Mantua» [Aen.
He hung on by a neck from Ocnus and then survived an objection from the rider of the runner-up.
Currently, Greg Lawrence of Ocnus Productions is producing Kevin Spencer, an animated series about a psychopathic kid who lives with his white-trash parents, a comedy in the vein of South Park.
 
 
 
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