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OENONE , in See also:

Greek See also:legend, daughter of the See also:river-See also:god Kebren and wife of See also:Paris. Possessing the See also:gift of See also:divination, she warned her See also:husband of the evils that would result from his See also:journey to See also:Greece. The sequel was the See also:rape of See also:Helen and the Trojan See also:War. Just before the See also:capture of the See also:city, Paris, wounded by See also:Philoctetes with one of the arrows of Heracles, sought. the aid of the deserted Oenone, who had told him that she alone could heal him if wounded. Indignant at his faithlessness, she refused to help him, and Paris returned to See also:Troy and died of his See also:wound. Oenone soon repented and hastened after him, but finding that she was too See also:late to See also:save him slew herself from grief at the sight of his dead See also:body. See also:Ovid (Heroides, 5) gives a pathetic description of Oenone's grief when she found herself deserted.

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