Alphesiboea

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τοῖς οἰκείοις βουλεύμασιν ἁλίσκεσθαι → hoist by one's own petard, hoist with one's own petard, hoist on one's own petard, hoisted by one's own petard, be hoist with one's own petard

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English > Greek (Woodhouse)

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Ἀλφεσίβοια, ἡ (ε lengthened Soph., Frag. 796).

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

Alphĕsĭboea: ae, f., = Ἀλφεσιβοια,
I daughter of the Arcadian king Phegeus, and wife of Alcmœon, who afterwards left her and married Callirrhoē. When her broth ers slew him on this account, she, from anger at the murder, killed them, Prop. 1, 15, 19.