The Argonautica of Gaius Valerius Flaccus Setinus Balbus : book I. Translated Into English Prose With Introduction And Notes
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Next behind him came husband of Deipyle, and father of Diomed, who is hence often spoken of as Tydides. ^ Nestor's elder brother. The ship thus contained two pugilists among her crew. There were no less than three cities bearing the name of Pylos, each of which claimed Nestor as its alumnus, and consequently Periclymenus also. One was in Elis, another in Triphylia, and the third in Messenia. Aulon was not a town or a valley in Elis, as Pliny and Strabo appear to imagine, but a town in the north... of Messenia, at the mouth of the river Cyparissius. Methone was on the south-west coast of the same province. The meaning, therefore, is that Pericly- menus was famed for his skill with the gloves throughout Elis and Messenia, i. e. all down the western coast of the Pelo- ponnese. Periclymenus was a sort of distant cousin to Jason, whose father Aeson was his half-uncle on the mother's side. ^ Philoctetes, the only one of the Argonauts besides Nestor who took part in the Trojan war. He was the friend of Hercules, who left him his bow and poisoned arrows (1.
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