Danaides Definition

dənāədēz
danaid
noun
The fifty daughters of Danaus, a king of Argos: forty-nine murder their husbands at their father's command and are condemned in Hades to draw water forever with a sieve.
Webster's New World

Plural form of danaide.

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Danaides Sentence Examples

  • By way of expiation for their crime the Danaides were condemned to the endless task of filling with water a vessel which had no bottom.

  • This punishment, originally inflicted on those who neglected certain mystic rites, was transferred to those who, like the Danaides, despised the mystic rite of marriage; cf.

  • Some of the titles of his plays, Danaides, Actaeon, Alcestis, Tantalus, show that he treated mythological as well as contemporary subjects.

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Words Starting With

DDADAN

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Words Starting With D and Ending With S

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8 Letter Words8 Letter Words Starting With D8 Letter Words Ending With S

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