DANAUS  , in See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek See also:

• LEGEND (through the French from the med. Lat. legenda, things to be read, from legere, to read)

legend, son of Belus, See also:

• KING
• KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
• KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
• KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
• KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
• KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
• KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
• KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
• KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
• KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
• KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
• KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)

king of See also:

• EGYPT

Egypt, and twin-See also:

• BROTHER

brother of Aegyptus . He was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at Chemmis (Panopolis) in Egypt, buthavingbeendriven out byhis brother he fled with his fifty daughters to See also:

• ARGOS

Argos, the See also:

• HOME
• HOME, DANIEL DUNGLAS (1833-1886)
• HOME, EARLS OF

home of his ancestress lo . Here he became king and taught the inhabitants of the See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country to dig See also:

• WELLS
• WELLS, CHARLES JEREMIAH (1798?–1879)
• WELLS, DAVID AMES (1828—1898)
• WELLS, HERBERT GEORGE (1866— )
• WELLS, SIR THOMAS SPENCER, 1ST BART

wells . In the meantime the fifty sons of Aegyptus arrived in Argos, and Danaus was obliged to consent to their See also:

• MARRIAGE

marriage with his daughters . But to each of these he gave a See also:

• KNIFE (0. E. cuff, a word appearing in different forms in many Teutonic languages, cf. Du. knijf, Ger. Kneif, a shoe-maker's knife, Swed. knif; the ultimate origin is unknown; Skeat finds the origin in the root of " nip," formerly " knip "; Fr. canif is a

knife with injunctions to slay her See also:

• HUSBAND

husband on the marriage See also:

• NIGHT

night . They all obeyed except Hyperm(n)estra, who spared Lynceus . She was brought to trial by her See also:

• FATHER

father, acquitted and afterwards married to her See also:

• LOVER, SAMUEL (1797-1868)

lover . Being unable to find suitors for the other daughters, Danaus offered them in marriage to the youths of the See also:

• DISTRICT

district who proved themselves victorious in racing contests (See also:

• PINDAR (Gr. HivSapos, c. 522–443 B.c.)

Pindar, Pythia, ix . 117) . According to another See also:

• STORY, JOHN (c. 1510-1571)
• STORY, JOSEPH (1779-1845)
• STORY, ROBERT HERBERT (1835-1907)
• STORY, WILLIAM WETMORE (1819—1895)

story, Lynceus slew Danaus and his daughters and seized the See also:

• THRONE

throne of Argos (schol. on See also:

• EURIPIDES (48o–4o6 B.C.)

Euripides, See also:

• HECUBA (Gr. `Exa(3n)

Hecuba, 886) . By way of expiation for their See also:

• CRIME (Lat. crimen, accusation)

crime the Danaides were condemned to the endless task of filling with See also:

• WATER

water a See also:

• VESSEL (O. Fr. vaissel, from a rare Lat. vascellum, dim. of vas, vase, urn)

vessel which had no bottom . This See also:

• PUNISHMENT (from Lat. punire, to punish, from poena, punishment, Gr. 7rocvil)

punishment, originally inflicted on those who neglected certain mystic See also:

• RITES

rites, was transferred to those who, like the Danaides, despised the mystic rite of marriage; cf. the water-bearing figure (Aovrpocbbpos) on the See also:

• GRAVE

grave of unmarried persons .

The See also:

• MURDER

murder of the sons of Aegyptus by their wives is supposed to represent the drying up of the See also:

• RIVERS
• RIVERS, ANTHONY WOODVILLE, or WYDEVILLE, 2ND EARL (c. 1442—1483)
• RIVERS, EARL
• RIVERS, RICHARD SAVAGE, 4TH EARL (c. 1660—1712)

rivers and springs of Argolis in summer by the agency of the See also:

• NYMPHS

nymphs . See also:

• APOLLODORUS

Apollodorus ii . 1 ; See also:

• HORACE [QuINTus HORATIUS FLACCUS] (65-8 B.C.)

Horace, Odes, iii . I I ; O . Waser, in Archiv See also:

• FUR (connected with O. Fr. forre, a sheath or case; so " an outer covering ")

fur Religionswissenschaft, ii . Heft 1, 1899; articles in Pauly-Wissowa's Realencyclopadie and W . H . See also:

• ROSCHER, WILHELM GEORG FRIEDRICH (1817–1894)

Roscher's Lexikon der Mythologie; See also:

• CAMPBELL, ALEXANDER (1788–1866)
• CAMPBELL, BEATRICE STELLA (Mrs PATRICK CAMPBELL) (1865– )
• CAMPBELL, GEORGE (1719–1796)
• CAMPBELL, JOHN
• CAMPBELL, JOHN (1708-1775)
• CAMPBELL, JOHN CAMPBELL, BARON (1779-1861)
• CAMPBELL, JOHN FRANCIS
• CAMPBELL, LEWIS (1830-1908)
• CAMPBELL, REGINALD JOHN (1867— )
• CAMPBELL, THOMAS (1777—1844)

Campbell See also:

• BONNER, EDMUND (1500?—1569)

Bonner, in Harvard Studies, xiii . (1902) .