It should be observed that the ancient narrative
5 This fragment is placed by Spohn after Works and Days
hands down the account that Patroclus was even a kinsman of Achilles; for Hesiod says that Menoetius the father of Patroclus, was a brother of Peleus, so that in that case they were first cousins.
Some write “Serus the son of Halirrhothius,” whom Hesiod. mentions: “He (begot) Serus and Alazygus, goodly sons.’” And Serus was the son of Halirrhothius Perieres’ son, and of Alcyone.
This oracle most clearly proves that Asclepius was not the son of Arsinoé, but that Hesiod or one of Hesiod’s interpolators composed the verses to please the Messenians.
Some say (Asclepius) was the son of Arsinoé, others of .Coronis. But Asclepiades says that Arsinoé was the daughter of Leucippus, Perieres’ son, and that to her and Apollo Asclepius and a daughter, Eriopis, were born:
“And she bare in the palace Asclepius, leader of men, and Eriopis with the lovely hair, being subject in love to Phoebus ”
And of Arsinoé likewise:
“And Arsinoé was joined with the son of Zeus and Leto and bare a son Asclepius, blameless and strong.”
For how does he say that the same. persons (the Cyclopes) were like the gods, and yet represent them as being destroyed, by Apollo in the Catalogue of the Daughters of Leucippus?
“Echemus made Timandra his buxom wife.”
“Hesiod in giving their descent makes them (Castor and Polydeuces) both sons of Zeus.
Hesiod, however, makes Helen the child neither of Leda nor Nemesis, but of a daughter of Ocean and Zeus.
Stesichorus says that while sacrificing to the gods Tyndareus forgot Aphrodite and that the goddess was angry and made his daughters twice and thrice wed and deserters of their husbands. ... . And Hesiod also says: .
“And laughter-loving Aphrodite felt jealous when she looked on them and cast them into evil report. Then Timandra deserted Echemus and went and came to Phyleus, dear to the deathless gods; and even so Clytaemnestra deserted god-like Agamemnon and lay with Aegisthus and chose a worse mate; and even so Helen dishonoured the couch of golden-haired Menelaus.”
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