Deianeira, the wife of Hercules, whose death she had been the unwitting cause of by giving him the poisoned robe which Nessus (q.v.) had sent her as potent to preserve her husband's love; on hearing the fatal result she killed herself in remorse and despair.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Dege`rando, Baron * Deiphobus