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Meaning of sosias



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It is the person who bears such resemblance with another that may be confused with it. The name derives from the work of the Latin playwright Plautus Anphitruo ( Host ) in which mercury is passed by lookalike, servant of general host to help Jupiter to seduce Alcmene, wife of the general. The role of the look-alike may be fraudulent or agreed or simply an imitation as the Elvis Presley that abound in our culture. It is said that some characters of the 20th century had its look-alike as a security measure. Such was the case of Churchill, Hitler, Franco, Stalin, Saddam Husein, Isabel II and the same Pablo VI.

  










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