οἱ δʼ ἐπίγονοι τὴν στρατείαν ἐπιφανῆ πεποιημένοι μετὰ πολλῶν λαφύρων ἀνέκαμψαν εἰς τὰς πατρίδας. τῶν δὲ Καδμείων τῶν συμφυγόντων εἰς τὸ Τιλφωσσαῖον Τειρεσίας μὲν ἐτελεύτησεν, ὃν θάψαντες λαμπρῶς οἱ Καδμεῖοι τιμαῖς ἰσοθέοις ἐτίμησαν· αὐτοὶ δὲ μεταναστάντες ἐκ τῆς πόλεως ἐπὶ Δωριεῖς ἐστράτευσαν, καὶ μάχῃ νικήσαντες τοὺς ἐγχωρίους ἐκείνους μὲν ἐξέβαλον ἐκ τῶν πατρίδων, αὐτοὶ δʼ ἐπί τινας χρόνους κατοικήσαντες, οἱ μὲν ἐν αὐτῇ κατέμειναν, οἱ δʼ ἐπανῆλθον εἰς τὰς Θήβας, Κρέοντος τοῦ Μενοικέως βασιλεύοντος. οἱ δʼ ἐκ τῶν πατρίδων ἐξελαθέντες ὕστερόν τισι χρόνοις κατῆλθον εἰς τὴν Δωρίδα καὶ κατῴκησαν ἐν Ἐρινεῷ καὶ Κυτινίῳ καὶ Βοιῷ.
πρὸ δὲ τούτων τῶν χρόνων Βοιωτὸς ὁ Ἄρνης καὶ Ποσειδῶνος καταντήσας εἰς τὴν τότε μὲν Αἰολίδα, νῦν δὲ Θετταλίαν καλουμένην, τοὺς μεθʼ ἑαυτοῦ Βοιωτοὺς ὠνόμασε. περὶ δὲ τῶν Αἰολέων τούτων ἀναγκαῖον προσαναδραμόντας τοῖς χρόνοις τὰ κατὰ μέρος ἐκθέσθαι.
ἐν τοῖς ἔμπροσθεν χρόνοις τῶν Αἰόλου τοῦ Ἕλληνος τοῦ Δευκαλίωνος υἱῶν οἱ μὲν ἄλλοι κατῴκησαν ἐν τοῖς προειρημένοις τόποις, Μίμας δὲ μείνας ἐβασίλευσε τῆς Αἰολίδος. Μίμαντος δὲ Ἱππότης γενόμενος ἐκ Μελανίππης ἐτέκνωσεν Αἴολον· τούτου δʼ Ἄρνη γενομένη θυγάτηρ Βοιωτὸν ἐκ Ποσειδῶνος ἐγέννησεν.
The Epigoni, after they had made their campaign renowned, returned to their native lands, bearing with them great booty. Of the Cadmeans who fled in a body to Tilphossaeum, Teiresias died there, and the Cadmeans buried him in state and accorded him honours equal to those offered to the gods; but as for themselves, they left the city and marched against the Dorians; and having conquered them in battle they drove out of their native lands the inhabitants of that country and they themselves settled there for some time, some of them remaining there permanently and others returning to Thebes when Creon, the son of Menoeceus, was king. But those who had been expelled from their native lands returned at some later period to Doris and made their homes in Erineus, Cytinium, and Boeum.
Before the period in which these things took place, Boeotus, the son of Arnê and Poseidon, came into the land which was then called Aeolis but is now called Thessaly, and gave to his followers the name of Boeotians. But concerning these inhabitants of Aeolis, we must revert to earlier times and give a detailed account of them. In the times before that which we are discussing the rest of the sons of Aeolus, who was the son of Hellen, who was the son of Deucalion, settled in the regions we have mentioned, but Mimas remained behind and ruled as king of Aeolis. Hippotes, who was born of Mimas, begat Aeolus by Melanippê, and Arnê, who was the daughter of Aeolus, bore Boeotus by Poseidon.
αἰόλος δʼ ἀπιστῶν εἰ Ποσειδῶνι ἐμίγη καὶ τῇ φθορᾷ μεμφόμενος, παρέδωκε τὴν Ἄρνην Μεταποντίῳ ξένῳ κατὰ τύχην παρεπιδημοῦντι, προστάξας ἀπάγειν εἰς Μεταπόντιον. τούτου δὲ πράξαντος τὸ προσταχθέν, ἡ Ἄρνη τρεφομένη ἐν Μεταποντίῳ ἐγέννησεν Αἴολον καὶ Βοιωτόν, οὓς ὁ Μεταπόντιος, ἄπαις ὤν, κατά τινα χρησμὸν υἱοποιήσατο.
οὗτοι δʼ ἀνδρωθέντες, στάσεως γενομένης ἐν τῷ Μεταποντίῳ, βίᾳ κατέσχον τὴν βασιλείαν. ὕστερον δὲ τῆς Ἄρνης διενεχθείσης πρὸς Αὐτολύτην τὴν γυναῖκα τοῦ Μεταποντίου, βοηθοῦντες τῇ μητρὶ τὴν Αὐτολύτην ἀνεῖλον. δεινῶς δὲ φέροντος τοῦ Μεταποντίου τὸ συμβεβηκός, πλοῖα παρασκευασάμενοι καὶ τὴν Ἄρνην ἀναλαβόντες ἐξέπλευσαν μετὰ πολλῶν φίλων.
αἰόλος μὲν οὖν τὰς ἐν τῷ Τυρρηνικῷ πελάγει καλουμένας ἀπʼ αὐτοῦ νήσους Αἰολίδας κατέσχε, καὶ πόλιν ἔκτισε τὴν ὀνομαζομένην Λιπάραν· Βοιωτὸς δὲ πλεύσας πρὸς Αἰόλον τὸν τῆς Ἄρνης πατέρα, καὶ τεκνωθεὶς ὑπʼ αὐτοῦ, παρέλαβε τῆς Αἰολίδος τὴν βασιλείαν· καὶ τὴν μὲν χώραν ἀπὸ τῆς μητρὸς Ἄρνην, τοὺς δὲ λαοὺς ἀφʼ ἑαυτοῦ Βοιωτοὺς ὠνόμασε.
Βοιωτοῦ δὲ Ἴτωνος γενόμενος ἐτέκνωσεν υἱοὺς τέτταρας, Ἱππάλκιμον καὶ Ἠλεκτρύωνα, ἔτι δʼ Ἀρχίλυκον καὶ Ἀλεγήνορα. τούτων δʼ Ἱππάλκιμος μὲν ἐγέννησε Πηνέλεων, Ἠλεκτρύων δὲ Λήιτον, Ἀλεγήνωρ δὲ Κλονίον, Ἀρχίλυκος δὲ Προθοήνορα καὶ Ἀρκεσίλαον τοὺς ἐπὶ Τροίαν στρατευσαμένους ἡγεμόνας τῶν ἁπάντων Βοιωτῶν.
But Aeolus, not believing that it was Poseidon who had lain with Arnê and holding her to blame for her downfall, handed her over to a stranger from Metapontium who happened to be sojourning there at the time, with orders to carry her off to Metapontium. And after the stranger had done as he was ordered, Arnê, while living in Metapontium, gave birth to Aeolus and Boeotus, whom the Metapontian, being childless, in obedience to a certain oracle adopted as his own sons. When the boys had attained to manhood, a civil discord arose in Metapontium and they seized the kingship by violence. Later, however, a quarrel took place between Arnê and Autolytê, the wife of the Metapontian, and the young men took the side of their mother and slew Autolytê. But the Metapontian was indignant at this deed, and so they got boats ready and taking Arnê with them set out to sea accompanied by many friends. Now Aeolus took possession of the islands in the Tyrrhenian Sea which are called after him “Aeolian” and founded a city to which he gave the name Lipara; but Boeotus sailed home to Aeolus, the father of Arnê, by whom he was adopted and in succession to him he took over the kingship of Aeolis; and the land he named Arnê after his mother, but the inhabitants Boeotians after himself. And Itonus, the son of Boeotus, begat four sons, Hippalcimus, Electryon, Archilycus, and Alegenor. Of these sons Hippalcimus begat Penelos, Electryon begat Leïtus, Alegenor begat Clonius, and Archilycus begat Prothoënor and Arcesilaüs, who were the leaders of all the Boeotians in the expedition against Troy.
τούτων δʼ ἡμῖν διευκρινημένων, πειρασόμεθα διελθεῖν περὶ Σαλμωνέως καὶ Τυροῦς καὶ τῶν ἀπογόνων ἕως Νέστορος τοῦ στρατεύσαντος ἐπὶ Τροίαν. Σαλμωνεὺς γὰρ ἦν υἱὸς Αἰόλου τοῦ Ἕλληνος τοῦ Δευκαλίωνος· οὗτος δʼ ἐκ τῆς Αἰολίδος ὁρμηθεὶς μετὰ πλειόνων Αἰολέων ᾤκισε τῆς Ἠλείας παρὰ τὸν Ἀλφειὸν ποταμὸν πόλιν καὶ ἐκάλεσεν ἀφʼ ἑαυτοῦ Σαλμωνίαν. γήμας δʼ Ἀλκιδίκην τὴν Ἀλέου ἐγέννησε θυγατέρα τὴν προσαγορευθεῖσαν Τυρώ, κάλλει διαφέρουσαν.
τῆς δὲ γυναικὸς Ἀλκιδίκης ἀποθανούσης ἐπέγημε τὴν ὀνομαζομένην Σιδηρώ· αὕτη δὲ χαλεπῶς διετέθη πρὸς τὴν Τυρώ, ὡς ἂν μητρυιά. μετὰ δὲ ταῦτα Σαλμωνεύς, ὑβριστὴς ὢν καὶ ἀσεβής, ὑπὸ μὲν τῶν ὑποτεταγμένων ἐμισήθη, ὑπὸ δὲ Διὸς διὰ τὴν ἀσέβειαν ἐκεραυνώθη.
τῇ δὲ Τυροῖ, παρθένῳ κατʼ ἐκείνους τοὺς χρόνους οὔσῃ, Ποσειδῶν μιγεὶς παῖδας ἐγέννησε Πελίαν καὶ Νηλέα. ἡ δὲ Τυρὼ συνοικήσασα Κρηθεῖ ἐτέκνωσεν Ἀμυθάονα καὶ Φέρητα καὶ Αἴσονα. Κρηθέως δὲ τελευτήσαντος ἐστασίασαν περὶ τῆς βασιλείας Πελίας τε καὶ Νηλεύς· τούτων δὲ Πελίας μὲν Ἰωλκοῦ καὶ τῶν πλησίον χωρίων ἐβασίλευσε, Νηλεὺς δὲ παραλαβὼν Μελάμποδα καὶ Βίαντα τοὺς Ἀμυθάονος καὶ Ἀγλαΐας υἱοὺς καί τινας ἄλλους τῶν Ἀχαιῶν Φθιωτῶν καὶ τῶν Αἰολέων ἐστράτευσεν εἰς Πελοπόννησον.
καὶ Μελάμπους μὲν μάντις ὢν τὰς Ἀργείας γυναῖκας μανείσας διὰ τὴν Διονύσου μῆνιν ἐθεράπευσεν, ἀντὶ δὲ ταύτης τῆς εὐεργεσίας χάριν ἔλαβε παρὰ τοῦ βασιλέως τῶν Ἀργείων Ἀναξαγόρου τοῦ Μεγαπένθους τὰ δύο μέρη τῆς βασιλείας· κατοικήσας δʼ ἐν Ἄργει κοινὴν ἐποιήσατο τὴν βασιλείαν Βίαντι τῷ ἀδελφῷ.
Now that we have examined these matters we shall endeavour to set forth the facts concerning Salmoneus and Tyro and their descendants as far as Nestor, who took part in the campaign against Troy. Salmoneus was a son of Aeolus, who was the son of Hellen, who was the son of Deucalion, and setting out from Aeolis with a number of Aeolians he founded a city in Eleia on the banks of the river Alpheius and called it Salmonia after his own name. And marrying Alcidicê, the daughter of Aleus, he begat by her a daughter, her who was given the name Tyro, a maiden of surpassing beauty. When his wife Alcidicê died Salmoneus took for a second wife Sidero, as she was called, who treated Tyro unkindly, as a step-mother would. Afterwards Salmoneus, being an overbearing man and impious, came to be hated by his subjects and because of his impiety was slain by Zeus with a bolt of lightning. As for Tyro, who was still a virgin when this took place, Poseidon lay with her and begat two sons, Pelias and Neleus. Then Tyro married Cretheus and bore Amythaon and Pheres and Aeson. But at the death of Cretheus a strife over the kingship arose between Pelias and Neleus. Of these two Pelias came to be king over Iolcus and the neighbouring districts, but Neleus, taking with him Melampous and Bias, the sons of Amythaon and Aglaïa, and certain other Achaeans of Phthiotis and Aeolians, made a campaign into the Peloponnesus. Melampous, who was a seer, healed the women of Argos of the madness which the wrath of Dionysus had brought upon them, and in return for this benefaction he received from the king of the Argives, Anaxagoras the son of Megapenthes, two-thirds of the kingdom; and he made his home in Argos and shared the kingship with Bias his brother.
γήμας δὲ Ἰφιάνειραν τὴν Μεγαπένθους ἐτέκνωσεν Ἀντιφάτην καὶ Μαντώ, ἔτι δὲ Βίαντα καὶ Προνόην· Ἀντιφάτου δὲ καὶ Ζευξίππης τῆς Ἱπποκόωντος Οἰκλῆς καὶ Ἀμφάλκης ὑπῆρξαν, Οἰκλέους δὲ καὶ Ὑπερμνήστρας τῆς Θεσπίου Ἰφιάνειρα καὶ Πολύβοια καὶ Ἀμφιάραος ἐγένοντο.
Μελάμπους μὲν οὖν καὶ Βίας καὶ οἱ ἀπʼ ἐκείνων οὕτω τῆς ἐν Ἄργει βασιλείας μετέσχον, Νηλεὺς δὲ μετὰ τῶν συνακολουθησάντων παραγενόμενος εἰς Μεσσήνην πόλιν ἔκτισε Πύλον, δόντων αὐτῷ τῶν ἐγχωρίων. ταύτης δὲ βασιλεύων καὶ γήμας Χλῶριν τὴν Ἀμφίονος τοῦ Θηβαίου, παῖδας ἐγέννησε δώδεκα, ὧν ἦν πρεσβύτατος μὲν Περικλύμενος, νεώτατος δὲ Νέστωρ ὁ ἐπὶ Τροίαν στρατεύσας. περὶ μὲν οὖν τῶν Νέστορος προγόνων ἀρκεσθησόμεθα τοῖς ῥηθεῖσι, στοχαζόμενοι τῆς συμμετρίας,
And marrying Iphianeira, the daughter of Megapenthes, he begat Antiphates and Manto, and also Bias and Pronoê; and of Antiphates and of Zeuxippê, the daughter of Hippocoön, the children were Œcles and Amphalces, and to Œcles and Hypermnestra, the daughter of Thespius, were born Iphianeira, Polyboea, and Amphiaraüs. Now Melampous and Bias and their descendants shared in the kingship in Argos, as we have stated, but Neleus, when he had arrived in Messenê together with his companions, founded the city of Pylus, the natives of the region giving him the site. And while king of this city he married Chloris, the daughter of Amphion the Theban, and begat twelve sons, the oldest of whom was Periclymenus and the youngest the Nestor who engaged in the expedition against Troy.
As regards the ancestors of Nestor, then, we shall be satisfied with what has been said, since we are aiming at due proportion in our account.
περὶ δὲ Λαπιθῶν καὶ Κενταύρων ἐν μέρει διέξιμεν. Ὠκεανοῦ καὶ Τηθύος κατὰ τοὺς μύθους παῖδες ἐγένοντο πλείους ποταμῶν ἐπώνυμοι, ἐν οἷς καὶ Πηνειός, ἀφʼ οὗ συνέβη τὸν ἐν Θετταλίᾳ Πηνειὸν ὀνομασθῆναι. οὗτος δὲ μιγεὶς νύμφῃ τῇ προσαγορευομένῃ Κρεούσῃ παῖδας ἐγέννησεν Ὑψέα καὶ Στίλβην, ᾗ μιγεὶς Ἀπόλλων Λαπίθην καὶ Κένταυρον ἐγέννησε.
καὶ τούτων Λαπίθης μὲν κατοικῶν περὶ τὸν Πηνειὸν ποταμὸν ἐβασίλευσε τῶν τόπων τούτων, γήμας δὲ Ὀρσινόμην τὴν Εὐρυνόμου ἐγέννησεν υἱοὺς δύο, Φόρβαντα καὶ Περίφαντα. οὗτοι μὲν οὖν ἐνταῦθα ἐβασίλευσαν, οἱ δὲ σύμπαντες λαοὶ ἀπὸ Λαπίθου Λαπίθαι προσηγορεύθησαν. τῶν δʼ υἱῶν τῶν Λαπίθου Φόρβας μὲν εἰς Ὤλενον παρῆλθεν, ἐξ ἧς μεταπεμψάμενος αὐτὸν Ἀλέκτωρ ὁ τῆς Ἠλείας βασιλεὺς βοηθόν, φοβούμενος τὴν Πέλοπος δυναστείαν, τῆς ἐν Ἤλιδι βασιλείας μετέδωκεν·
ἐκ δὲ Φόρβαντος ὑπῆρξαν υἱοὶ δύο, Αἰγεὺς καὶ Ἄκτωρ, οἱ τὴν Ἠλείων βασιλείαν παραλαβόντες. ὁ δʼ ἕτερος τῶν Λαπίθου παίδων Περίφας γήμας Ἀστυάγυιαν τὴν Ὑψέως ἐγέννησεν ὀκτὼ παῖδας, ὧν ἦν πρεσβύτατος Ἀντίων, ὃς μιγεὶς Περιμήλᾳ τῇ Ἀμυθάονος ἐγέννησεν Ἰξίονα. οὗτος δʼ, ὥς φασιν, ὑποσχόμενος ἕδνα πολλὰ δώσειν Ἠϊονεῖ ἔγημε τὴν Ἠϊονέως θυγατέρα Δίαν, ἐξ ἧς ἐγέννησε Πειρίθουν.
We shall now discuss in turn the Lapiths and Centaurs. To Oceanus and Tethys, so the myths relate, were born a number of sons who gave their names to rivers, and among them was Peneius, from whom the river Peneius in Thessaly later got its name. He lay with the nymph named Creüsa and begat as children Hypseus and Stilbê, and with the latter Apollo lay and begat Lapithes and Centaurus. Of these two, Lapithes made his home about the Peneius river and ruled over these regions, and marrying Orsinomê, the daughter of Eurynomus, he begat two sons, Phorbas and Periphas. And these sons became kings in this region and all the peoples there were called “Lapiths” after Lapithes. As for the sons of Lapithes, Phorbas went to Olenus, from which city Alector, the king of Eleia, summoned him to come to his aid, since he stood in fear of the overlordship of Pelops, and he gave him a share of the kingship of Elis; and to Phorbas were born two sons, Aegeus and Actor, who received the kingship over the Eleans. The other son of Lapithes, namely, Periphas, married Astyaguia, the daughter of Hypseus, and begat eight sons, the oldest of whom was Antion, who lay with Perimela, the daughter of Amythaon, and begat Ixion. He, the story goes, having promised that he would give many gifts of wooing to Eïoneus, married Dia, the daughter of Eïoneus, by whom he begat Peirithoüs.
ἔπειθʼ ὁ μὲν Ἰξίων οὐκ ἀπέδωκε τὰ ἕδνα τῇ γυναικί, ὁ δʼ Ἠϊονεὺς τὰς ἵππους ἀντὶ τούτων ἠνεχύρασεν. ὁ δʼ Ἰξίων τὸν Ἠϊονέα μετεπέμψατο ἐπαγγελλόμενος πάντα ὑπακούσεσθαι, καὶ τὸν Ἠϊονέα παραγενόμενον ἔβαλεν εἰς βόθρον πυρὸς μεστόν. διὰ δὲ τὸ μέγεθος τῆς παρανομίας μηδένα βούλεσθαι καθᾶραι τὸν φόνον. τέλος δʼ ὑπὸ τοῦ Διὸς κατὰ τοὺς μύθους ἁγνισθείς, ἠράσθη μὲν τῆς Ἥρας καὶ κατετόλμησεν ὑπὲρ συνουσίας λόγους ποιεῖσθαι.
ἔπειτα τὸν μὲν Δία εἴδωλον ποιήσαντα τῆς Ἥρας νεφέλην ἐξαποστεῖλαι, τὸν δὲ Ἰξίονα τῇ νεφέλῃ μιγέντα γεννῆσαι τοὺς ὀνομαζομένους Κενταύρους ἀνθρωποφυεῖς. τέλος δὲ μυθολογοῦσι τὸν Ἰξίονα διὰ τὸ μέγεθος τῶν ἡμαρτημένων ὑπὸ Διὸς εἰς τροχὸν ἐνδεθῆναι,
But when afterward Ixion would not pay over the gifts of wooing to his wife, Eïoneus took as security for these his mares. Ixion thereupon summoned Eïoneus to come to him, assuring that he would comply in every respect, but when Eïoneus arrived he cast him into a pit which he had filled with fire. Because of the enormity of this crime no man, we are informed, was willing to purify him of the murder. The myths recount, however, that in the end he was purified by Zeus, but that he became enamoured of Hera and had the temerity to make advances to her. Thereupon, men say, Zeus formed a figure of Hera out of a cloud and sent it to him, and Ixion, lying with the cloud (Nephelê) begat the Centaurs, as they are called, which have the shapes of men. But the myths relate that in the end Ixion, because of the enormity of his misdeeds, was bound by Zeus upon a wheel and after death had to suffer punishment for all eternity.
καὶ τελευτήσαντα τὴν τιμωρίαν ἔχειν αἰώνιον. τοὺς δὲ Κενταύρους τινὲς μέν φασιν ἐν τῷ Πηλίῳ τραφῆναι ὑπὸ Νυμφῶν, ἀνδρωθέντας δὲ καὶ μιγέντας ἵπποις θηλείαις γεννῆσαι τοὺς ὀνομαζομένους διφυεῖς Ἱπποκενταύρους· τινὲς δὲ λέγουσι τοὺς ἐκ Νεφέλης καὶ Ἰξίονος γεννηθέντας Κενταύρους πρώτους ἱππεύειν ἐπιχειρήσαντας Ἱπποκενταύρους ὠνομάσθαι καὶ εἰς πλάσμα μύθου καταταχθῆναι ὡς διφυεῖς ὄντας.
φασὶ δὲ τούτους ὡς συγγενεῖς ὑπάρχοντας ἀπαιτῆσαι τὸν Πειρίθουν τὸ μέρος τῆς πατρῴας ἀρχῆς· οὐκ ἀποδιδόντος δὲ τοῦ Πειρίθου πόλεμον ἐξενεγκεῖν πρὸς αὐτόν τε καὶ τοὺς Λαπίθας.
ὕστερον δὲ διαλυθέντων αὐτῶν Πειρίθους μὲν γήμας Ἱπποδάμειαν τὴν Βούτου, καὶ καλέσαντος εἰς τοὺς γάμους τόν τε Θησέα καὶ τοὺς Κενταύρους, φασὶ μεθυσθέντας ἐπιβαλέσθαι ταῖς κεκλημέναις γυναιξὶ καὶ βίᾳ μίσγεσθαι, διὰ δὲ τὴν παρανομίαν τόν τε Θησέα καὶ τοὺς Λαπίθας παροξυνθέντας οὐκ ὀλίγους μὲν ἀνελεῖν, τοὺς δὲ λοιποὺς ἐκβαλεῖν ἐκ τῆς πόλεως.
διὰ δὲ ταύτην τὴν αἰτίαν τῶν Κενταύρων πανδημεὶ στρατευσάντων ἐπὶ τοὺς Λαπίθας καὶ πολλοὺς ἀνελόντων, τοὺς ὑπολειφθέντας φυγεῖν εἰς Φολόην τῆς Ἀρκαδίας, τέλος δʼ εἰς Μαλέαν ἐκπεσόντας ἐνταῦθα κατοικῆσαι. τοὺς δὲ Κενταύρους μετεωρισθέντας τοῖς προτερήμασι, καὶ ὁρμωμένους ἐκ τῆς Φολόης, λῄζεσθαι τοὺς παριόντας τῶν Ἑλλήνων καὶ πολλοὺς τῶν περιοίκων ἀναιρεῖν.
The Centaurs, according to some writers, were reared by Nymphs on Mt. Pelion, and when they had attained to manhood they consorted with mares and brought into being the Hippocentaurs, as they are called, which are creatures of double form; but others say that it was the Centaurs born of Ixion and Nephelê who were called Hippocentaurs, because they were the first to essay the riding of horses, and that they were then made into a fictitious myth, to the effect that they were of double form. We are also told that they demanded of Peirithoüs, on the ground of kinship, their share of their father’s kingdom, and that when Peirithoüs would not yield it to them they made war on both him and the Lapiths. At a later time, the account goes on to say, when they had made up their differences, Peirithoüs married Hippodameia, the daughter of Butes, and invited both Theseus and the Centaurs to the wedding. The Centaurs, however, becoming drunken assaulted the female guests and lay with them by violence, whereupon both Theseus and the Lapiths, incensed by such a display of lawlessness, slew not a few of them and drove the rest out of the city. Because of this the Centaurs gathered all their forces, made a campaign against the Lapiths, and slew many of them, the survivors fleeing into Mt. Pholoê in Arcadia and ultimately escaping from there to Cape Malea, where they made their home. And the Centaurs, elated by these successes, made Mt. Pholoê the base of their operations, plundered the Greeks who passed by, and slew many of their neighbours.
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