Danaus

How to use Danaus in a sentence

• The story referred to is that of the fifty daughters of Danaus, who were married to the fifty sons of Aegyptus, their cousins.

  The Aeneid of Virgil | Virgil

• Danaus cautions his Daughters very handsomly in point of Behaviour.

  A Short View of the Immorality, and Profaneness of the English Stage | Jeremy Collier

• Argos was of old called Hippeion; not from the animal Ἱππος, but απο Ἱππης του Δαναου, from Hippa the daughter of Danaus.

  A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.) | Jacob Bryant

• Some of them were conducted by Danaus, and Cadmus, who were the most illustrious of the whole.

  A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.) | Jacob Bryant

• Well, try the Lemnian women, or the daughters of Danaus, if you want to please with that sort of tale.

  The Works of Lucian of Samosata, v. 4 | Lucian of Samosata