Nessus

shirt of Nessus

That which causes destruction, ruin, or misfortune, from which there is no escape. An allusion to the centaur Nessus from Greek mythology, who deceived the wife of Heracles (Hercules) into wrapping him in a garment soaked in its blood, which poisoned and eventually killed him. The government ran blindly into the arms of these loans to survive the economic disaster, but what was supposed to aid and support us ended up being the poisoned shirt of Nessus, as the debt has put a stranglehold on our entire economy over the past five years.
See also: Nessus, of, shirt
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

the shirt of Nessus

used to refer to a destructive force or influence. literary
In Greek mythology, Nessus was a centaur killed by Hercules . While dying, Nessus told Deianira , Hercules' wife, that if she ever had cause to doubt her husband's love, she should wrap him in a shirt soaked in Nessus' blood as this would ensure his constancy. Deianira followed these instructions, but the centaur's blood was in fact a powerful poison that corroded Hercules' body and as he tried to remove the shirt chunks of his flesh were ripped away.
1922 Edith Wharton The Glimpses of the Moon It was as if a sickness long smouldering in him had broken out and become acute, enveloping him in the Nessus shirt of his memories.
See also: Nessus, of, shirt
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary
See also:
  • shirt of Nessus
  • the shirt of Nessus
  • the kiss of death
  • kiss of death
  • kiss of death, a/the
  • be moonstruck
  • even Homer (sometimes) nods
  • homer
  • Homeric nod
  • end game
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The conundrum of security in modern cloud computing
Beginning with an overview of use cases, the work covers subjects such as TCP/IP packet analysis, advanced sniffing techniques, vulnerability analysis using the Nessus software application, designing a DMZ, snort analysis, and log analysis.
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Tenable Network Security upgrades Nessus vulnerability scanner with new malware detection
Hercules was killed by Nessus. What kind of had designed himself?
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The SAINT, the ISS, and the Nessus Security Scanner will be discussed in more detail in the following sections.
A conceptual study of vulnerability detection
En este contexto, su trazo oscila entre la apariencia plena de belleza y fortaleza de las artes plasticas y el espiritu decadente del "Khiron" (1852) de Leconte de Lisle y agonico del "Nessus" (1893) de Jose Maria de Heredia.
Espacios alternativos: poesia y sujeto poetico en el "Coloquio de los centauros" de Ruben Dario
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Captains of the soul: stoic philosophy and the western profession of arms in the twenty-first century
Tenable Network Security Inc, a provider of unified security monitoring, announced yesterday the release of an iPhone application for its Nessus Vulnerability Scanner, designed to provide users with the ability to remotely connect to a Nessus server and launch scans and review reports using Apple iPhone and iPod touch devices
Tenable releases iPhone application to allow remote users to manage security scanning
So by 1971, FNCB held a 'consolidated interest' of 40 per cent in IAC with a 22.7 per cent interest in IAC through its wholly owned subsidiary, Nessus Investment Corporation and the 21.7 per cent in IAC (Holdings) Ltd purchased from ANZ.
A marriage of convenience: Citibank, Hawke-Keating Labor and foreign bank entry into Australia
Heracles's role as saviour also appears from a scene, based on a story from classical myth, in which he saves the Titan Prometheus, Atlas's brother, from his chains on Mount Caucasus where Zeus punished Prometheus for deceiving him (Winterson 2005, 93).Yet as befits the traditional trickster, the fate befalls Heracles of being tricked by the centaur Nessus. Heracles experiences a death-struggle while wearing a tunic drenched in the centaur's poisonous blood.
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