Nessus shirt
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Nessus shirt
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In Greek mythology, a shirt (chiton) soaked with the poisoned blood of the centaur Nessus that killed Heracles upon wearing it.
noun Nessus shirts · Nessus' shirt · shirt of Nessus
- A fatal present or inescapable fate. No wonder then that, with this age-long suppression (necessary in a sense though it may have been) which marks the Christian dispensation, there should have been associated endless Sickness and Crime and sordid Poverty, the Crucifixion of animals in the name of Science and of human workers in the na
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| Français | tunique de Nessus |
|---|---|
| Deutsch | Nessushemd, Nessusgewand |
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title = {Nessus shirt},
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