people
the Danaids
The fifty daughters of Danaus who murdered their husbands (the sons of Aegyptus) on the wedding night; in hell they fill leaking urns forever, and Megara vows to fill out their number.
Reading notes
- Hercules (Mad) §511 bloody brides of the Egyptian king
The Danaids, daughters of Danaus, who killed the sons of Aegyptus on their wedding night; Megara would be a fiftieth.
- Hercules (Mad) §765 the Danaids
The daughters of Danaus, filling leaking urns forever for the murder of their husbands.
- Hercules on Oeta §860 a daughter of Belus
The Danaids (Belides), the fifty daughters of Danaus who murdered their husbands on the wedding night.