Nessos

… After these feats, he returned to Thebes, freed, and gave his wife Megara to his nephew. He then went on to conquer Troy, take revenge on Augeas, who had refused him payment for cleaning the cowshed, and capture Pylos. During this time, he married Deianeira, the daughter of Oileus, king of Calydon (sister of Meleager, the famous boar hunter). When he conquered Oicharia in Aetolia and captured the princess Iolē, Deianeira, fearing that Iolē would take her husband away from her, gave her a garment that the centaur Nessos had given her, claiming it was infused with a love potion, without knowing that it was infused with the poison of the Hydra. Poisoned from all his body, he had himself carried to Mount Oeta in Thessaly, where he was placed on a pyre and set ablaze. …

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…　これらの功業を終えて自由の身となった彼はテーバイに戻り，妻メガラを甥に与えたのち，さらにトロイア遠征，牛小屋掃除の報酬を拒んだアウゲイアスへの報復，ピュロス攻略などの武勲をたてた。その間に彼はカリュドン王オイレウスOileusの娘デイアネイラDeianeira(猪狩りで有名な英雄メレアグロスの妹)を妻としていたが，アイトリア地方のオイカリアを攻略して王女イオレIolēを捕虜にしたとき，デイアネイラはイオレに夫を奪われるのを恐れて，かつてケンタウロスのネッソスNessosから愛の妙薬をしみこませたとのふれこみでもらった衣を，それがヒュドラの毒を塗ったものとも知らず，夫に与えた。このため五体を毒に侵された彼はみずからをテッサリア地方のオイテ山上に運ばせ，火葬壇に登って火をつけさせた。…

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