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Deianira

Deianira · f

daughter of Oeneus, sister of Meleager, wife of Hercules, and mother of Hyllus

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Where it lives

Hercules Oetaeus 3 · 2.66/10k
Epistulae 6 · 2.35/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 1 · 1.18/10k
Amores 1 · 0.64/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.45/10k
de Natura Deorum 1 · 0.28/10k
Metamorphoses 2 · 0.26/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

Dēïănīra — Lewis & Short

Dēïănīra, ae, f., *dhi+a/neira,

I daughter of Oeneus, sister of Meleager, wife of Hercules, and mother of Hyllus. She involuntarily caused the death of Hercules, by sending him the garment Nessus had given her, Ov. M. 9, 9 sq.; Hyg. Fab. 34 sq.; 162; Sen. Herc. Oet.; Cic. Tusc. 2, 8; id. N. D. 3, 28.

In the wild

Deianira Ovid, Epistulae 9.158
Deianiram Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 35.11.p9
Deianira Seneca, Hercules Oetaeus 1
Deianira Cicero, de Natura Deorum 3.70.p2
Deianira Ovid, Metamorphoses 9.138
Deianira Seneca, Hercules Oetaeus 1

6 of 16 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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