noose
object · 2 works · 2 mentions · 4 anchored passages
a deadly noose · a noose · the dangling noose · the noose
spoken of as
1 expressionin the texts
Helen
A hanging-noose, the instrument of Leda's actual suicide and of Helen's threatened suicide.
Yes, they say she tied a noose around her noble neck.
through shame of my disgraceful marriage she tied a noose around her neck.
—I will stretch a deadly noose about my neck, or drive inward a murderous thrust of slaughter that gushes from the throat, a contest of the blade through my flesh, as a sacrifice to the three goddesses and to the son of Priam, who once sat on the hollows of Ida, near the ox-stalls.