Composition 2: the death of Hercules

Review

purpose clauses
relative clauses
verbal expressions with participles
expressing purpose using ad plus the gerundive

Background

You already know the background to this story: Deianira was tricked by Nessus into believing that the vial of poison he gave her was actually a love potion.

Instructions

Your composition should use at least two participles and two relative clauses.
Your composition should include at least one expression of purpose using ad + a noun or pronoun modified by a gerundive.
Your first sentence should use a negative purpose clause to say that when Deianira, the daughter of Oeneus and the wife of Hercules saw that the beautiful young girl Iole had been brought (to her house), she began to devise a plot in order not to lose her husband (or “be deprived of” her husband).
Your second sentence should express that she sent her servant to bring to Hercules a garment dipped in the blood of the centaur Nessus, which she thought was a love potion.
Your third sentence should say that Hercules put the garment on and it immediately burst into flames.
Your fourth sentence should express that Hercules threw the slave, whom Deianira had sent to bring the garment back, into the sea.
Your last sentence should express that it is reported (or said) that Hercules rose to immortality, but Deianira killed herself on account of this deed.

Vocabulary

In addition to your required vocabulary, consult the vocabulary notes from previous translation and composition assignments on this subject.

famulus, famuli (m.) “servant”
machinor, machinari, -, machinatus “devise or contrive skillfully”;
privo, privare, privavi, privatus “deprive someone (acc.) of something (abl.)”
induo, induĕre, indui, indutum “put on an article of dress or ornament”
statim (adv.) “immediately”
flammo, flammare, flammavi, flammatus “flame, burn”