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Nessus
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A Centaur who, for attempting to carry off Dejanira, Hercules' wife, was shot by Hercules with an arrow dipped in the blood of the Hydra (q. v .), and who in dying handed to Dejanira his mantle, dipped in his poisoned blood, as a charm to regain her husband's affections should he at any time prove unfaithful. See Hercules .
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Nessus'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/n/nessus.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Nessus'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/n/nessus.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
