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Danaïd
Variant of Danaides
or Danaïdes
plural noun sing. Danaid
Gr. Myth. 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
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