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Hypermnestra'
Wife of Lynceus (2 syl.), and the only one of the fifty
daughters of Danaos who did not murder her husband on their bridal
night.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Hypermnestra' from Infoplease:
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