Danaides (Dana`ides) , daughters of Danaüs, who, for murdering their husbands on the night after marriage, were doomed in the nether world to the impossible task of filling with water a vessel pierced with holes. See Danaüs.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Danaë * Danaüs