Timid Danaides
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Jump to navigationJump to search- Danaides:in Greek mythology, the fifty daughters of Danaus, founder of Argos. They were to marry the fifty sons of Danaus's twin brother Aegyptus, a mythical king of Egypt. In the most common version of the myth, all but one of them kill their husbands on their wedding night.
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- timeo Danaos et dona ferentes: (Latin: I fear Greeks even those bearing gifts) a quote from Virgil's Aeneid (II, 49), often rendederes as "beare of Greeks bearing gifts," The gift in question is the Trojan Horse; the speaker is Laocoön, high priest of Troy.
