Nessus
2. A centaur, who carried Deianeira across the river Evenus, but, wishing to run away with her, ie was slot by Heracles with a poisoned arrow, which afterwards became the cause of Heracles' own death. (
Soph. Trach. 558;
Apollod. 2.7.4; comp. HERACLES.)
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