Prō̆serpĭna, ae, f., = Περσεφόνη.
I Proserpine , daughter of Ceres and Jupiter , and wife of Pluto , who seized her as she was gathering flowers in Sicily , and carried her away to the infernal regions : Cereris Proserpina puer, Naev. 2, 18; cf. Cic. N. D. 3, 21, 53; 3, 34, 83; Ov. M. 5, 391; Hyg. Fab. 146.—
II Poet., for the Lower World : sed me Imperiosa trahit Proserpina: vive, valeque, Hor. S. 2, 5, 109.