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Danae

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Dan·a·e also Dan·a·ë  (dn-)
n. Greek Mythology
The daughter of Eurydice and Acrisius and mother of Perseus who was imprisoned by her father in a bronze chamber.


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It was the word Danae which you used that surprised me.
Never yet have I been so overpowered by passion neither for goddess nor mortal woman as I am at this moment for yourself--not even when I was in love with the wife of Ixion who bore me Pirithous, peer of gods in counsel, nor yet with Danae the daintily-ancled daughter of Acrisius, who bore me the famed hero Perseus.
Rochester, or sitting like a second Danae with the golden shower falling daily round me.
 
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