As he lay dying, Nessus plotted revenge, told Deianira to gather up his blood and spilled semen and, if she ever wanted to prevent Heracles from having affairs with other women, she should apply them to his vestments.

After the taunting, Virgil and Dante pass quickly by to the centaurs, ( Nessus, Chiron, Pholus, and Nessus ) who guard the Flegetonte, " river of blood ", to continue through the seventh Circle.

As he lay dying, Nessus tricked Deianira, telling her that a mixture of olive oil and his heart's blood would ensure that Heracles would never again be unfaithful.

The act eventually led to Heracles ' own death, as Deianeira, fearing that Heracles loved Iole more, gave Heracles a robe smeared with the blood of the Centaur Nessus, believing it was a love-charm.

The robe was poisoned by the blood of the hydra ( which the arrow that Heracles shot Nessus with had been dipped in ).

Deianira and the dying centaur Nessus telling her of the " love charm " / " love potion " ( his own poisonous blood ).

She had kept some of Nessus ' blood, because he had told her with his dying breath that if she were to give Heracles a cloak ( chiton ) soaked in his blood that it would be a love charm.

Heracles later used an arrow dipped in the Hydra's poisonous blood to kill the centaur Nessus ; and Nessus's tainted blood was applied to the Tunic of Nessus, by which the centaur had his posthumous revenge.

In Greek mythology, Nessus ( Ancient Greek: ) was a famous centaur who was killed by Heracles, and whose tainted blood in turn killed Heracles.

As a final act of malice, Nessus told Deianira, as he lay dying, that his blood would ensure that Heracles would be true to her forever.

In Greek mythology, it is the shirt ( chiton ) daubed with the tainted blood of the centaur Nessus that Deianeira, Hercules ' wife, naïvely gave Hercules, burning him, and driving him to throw himself onto a funeral pyre.

* In Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson series of books a vague reference is made to the Shirt of Nessus as the brothers Travis and Connor Stoll give a t-shirt coated in Centaur blood to one of Artemis ' Hunters.

Hercules later used an arrow dipped in the Hydra's poisonous blood to kill the centaur Nessus ; and Nessus's tainted blood was applied to the Tunic of Nessus, by which the centaur had his posthumous revenge.

) Soon after they wed, Heracles and Deianira had to cross a river, and a centaur named Nessus offered to help Deianira across but then attempted to rape her.

Years earlier, the centaur Nessus had ferried her across the river Evenus and attempted to rape her when on the other side.

Nessus had accurately kicked a man's heart out through his splintered spine.

" I had explained ," said Nessus, " that our civilization was dying in its own waste heat.

Major-General Henning von Tresckow, one of the primary conspirators in the July 20 plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler, famously referred to the ' Robe of Nessus ' following the realization that the assassination plot had failed and that he and others involved in the conspiracy would lose their lives as a result: " None of us can complain about our own deaths.

She came poking into the ward, her petticoat showing slightly, defensively frigid ; she had been promoted beyond her dreams and it had been a Nessus ' shirt to her.

That is, he believes that Nessus only picked a person who had been lucky in her life so far, not one who actually causes luck to happen.

When she was younger, she had been carried across a river by the centaur, Nessus.

Nessus had lied about the love charm.

In the course of finding the control room and saving the Ringworld, the party learns what became of Teela Brown, who had been left behind after the exploration twenty years earlier led by the Puppeteer, Nessus.

In Audit / Poetry IV. 3, issue featuring Robert Duncan, in his long polemic with Robin Blaser's translation of The Chimeres of Gerard de Nerval, which Duncan believes deliberately and fatally omit the mystical and gnostic overtones of the original, Duncan writes: " The mystical doctrine of neo-Pythagorean naturalism has become like a Nessus shirt to the translator, and in the translation we hear Heracles ' tortured cry from Pound's version of the Women of Trachis from Sophokles: ' it all coheres.

As referenced in Robert Massie's tome Catherine The Great, A Portrait Of A Woman ", her former lover, Stanislau Polienski, now King of Poland writes to Catherine, that the crown she procured for me will become a shirt of Nessus.

Hercules killing Centaur Nessus ( marble by Giambologna, Florence )

He is confronted by Nessus, a Pierson's Puppeteer, and offered one of three open positions on an exploration voyage beyond Known Space.

Deïaneira and Nessus by Vlahos Vaggelis

A wild centaur named Nessus attempted to kidnap Deianira as he was ferrying her across the river Euenos, but she was rescued by Heracles, who shot the centaur with a poisoned arrow.

Heracles saved her from Nessus by shooting him with poisoned arrows.

Deianira, being concerned by Heracles's infidelity, believed Nessus ’ lie that Heracles would no longer desire any other woman after he was under the spell of the love philter.

Centaurs ' orbits are characterised by a wide range of eccentricity, from highly eccentric ( Pholus, Asbolus, Amicus, Nessus ) to more circular ( Chariklo and the Saturn-crossers: Thereus, Okyrhoe ).

The primary portal to access Nessus is through a gaping hole guarded by 9, 999 gelugons.

Nmap is often confused with host vulnerability assessment tools such as Nessus, which go further in their exploration of a target by testing for common vulnerabilities in the open ports found.

Heracles and Nessus by Giambologna, ( 1599 ), Florence.

According to surveys done by sectools. org, Nessus is the world's most popular vulnerability scanner, taking first place in the 2000, 2003, and 2006 security tools survey.

In typical operation, Nessus begins by doing a port scan with one of its four internal portscanners ( or it can optionally use Amap or Nmap ) to determine which ports are open on the target and then tries various exploits on the open ports.

The " Nessus " Project was started by Renaud Deraison in 1998 to provide to the Internet community a free remote security scanner.

Lichas bringing the garment of Nessus to Hercules, woodcut by Hans Sebald Beham, circa 1542-1548.

* Hercules Poisoned by the Shirt of Nessus, a 15th-century illumination at the Getty Museum.

Nessus, like all Puppeteers ever met by humans, is insane by Puppeteer standards.

In an adventure related in Betrayer of Worlds, that he does not recall in his later life ( e. g., in Ringworld ), Louis is found by a Pierson's Puppeteer named Nessus while working in a hospital in a rebel camp on Wunderland and severely addicted to pain killers.