Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—H

Hypermnestra'

Wife of Lynceus (2 syl.), and the only one of the fifty daughters of Danaos who did not murder her husband on their bridal night.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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