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Deianira

 [dee-yuh-nahy-ruh]  

De·ia·ni·ra

   [dee-yuh-nahy-ruh]
noun Classical Mythology.
a sister of Meleager and wife of Hercules, whom she killed unwittingly by giving him a shirt that had been dipped in the poisoned blood of Nessus.
Also, De·ia·nei·ra.
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a horn containing food or drink in endless supply, said to have been a horn of the goat Amalthaea
king of Ithaca, one of the heroes of the Iliad and protagonist of the Odyssey, also shrewdest of the Greek leaders in the Trojan War
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Deianira (ˌdiːəˈnaɪərə, ˌdeɪə-)
 
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Greek myth a sister of Meleager and wife of Hercules. She unintentionally killed Hercules by dipping his tunic in the poisonous blood of the Centaur Nessus, thinking it to be a love charm

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