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Δηιάνειρα

Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: Δηιάνειρα

Etym.: dh/i+os, a)nh/r

Sense

  1. destroying her spouse

Examples

  • ἐν δὲ ταῖσ κωμῳδίαισ Ὀμφάλη τε νέα καὶ Δηϊάνειρα καὶ πάλιν Ἥρα προσαγορεύεται. (Plutarch, , chapter 24 6:2)
  • παρὰ δὲ τούτου τὰ περὶ τὴν Ιὄλην Δηιάνειρα πυθομένη, καὶ δείσασα μὴ ἐκείνην μᾶλλον ἀγαπήσῃ, νομίσασα ταῖσ ἀληθείαισ φίλτρον εἶναι τὸ ῥυὲν αἷμα Νέσσου, τούτῳ τὸν χιτῶνα ἔχρισεν. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 2, chapter 7 7:16)
  • Δηιάνειρα δὲ αἰσθομένη τὸ γεγονὸσ ἑαυτὴν ἀνήρτησεν. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 2, chapter 7 7:21)
  • τούτου δὲ Δηιάνειρα θυγάτηρ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 1, chapter 11 4:2)
  • Οὐκοῦν λέγω σοι ὅτι ὅλον τὸ ἀγνόημά ἐστι περὶ τὸν μῦθον τὸ ἐπιχειρεῖν τὸν Κένταυρον συγγενέσθαι τῇ Δηιανείρᾳ. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 3:7)

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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