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Danaides

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Danaides
fifty daughters, forty-nine of whom are condemned to Hades to collect water in sieves. [Rom. Myth.: LLEI, I: 326]
See : Futility
Danaides
slew husbands on wedding night. [Gk. Myth.: Kravitz, 74]
See : Murder
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It was like the cask of Danaides into which the public had been pleased to pour its deposits.
Chance by Conrad, Joseph View in context
Miss Ophelia, in a few days, thoroughly reformed every department of the house to a systematic pattern; but her labors in all departments that depended on the cooperation of servants were like those of Sisyphus or the Danaides.
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