“There is a land Ellopia with much glebe and rich meadows, and rich in flocks and shambling kine.
There dwell men who have many sheep and: many oxen, and they are, in number. past telling, tribes of mortal men. And there upon its border is built a city,
Dodona?!;-.and Zeus loved it and (appointed) it to be
his oracle, reverenced by men... And they (the doves) lived in the hollow of an oak.) From them men of earth carry away all kinds prophecy,— whosoever fares to that spot and questions the deathless god, and comes bringing gifts with good omens.’
“.., strife ...- Of mortals who would have dared to fight him with the spear and charge against him, save only Heracles, the great-hearted offspring of Alcaeus? Such an one was (?) strong Meleager loved, of Ares,,the» golden-haired, dear. son of Oeneus; and Althaea. From his fierce eyes there shone forth portentous fire: and once in high Calydon he slew the destroying beast, the fierce wild god responded in the rustling of leaves in the oaks for Sim bE place'was famous,
boar with gleaming tusks.- In war and in dread strife no man of the Heroes dared to face him and to approach and fight with him when he appeared in the forefront... But he was slain by the hands and arrows of Apollo,! while he was fighting with the Curetes for pleasant Calydon. And these others (Althaea) bare to Oeneus, Porthaon’s son; horse-taming Pheres, and Agelaus surpassing all others, Toxeus and Clymenus and godlike Periphas, and tich-haired Gorga and wise Deianeira, who was subject in love to mighty Heracles and bare him Hyllus and Glenus and Ctesippus and Odites. These she bare and in ignorance she did a fearful thing: when (she had received)... the poisoned robe that held black doom... .” (99a,:
And yet Hesiod, says that after he had died in Thebes, Argeia the daughter. of Adrastus together with others (cp. frag. 99) came to the lamentation over Oedipus.
And (Eriphyle) bare in the palace Alcmaeon,3 shepherd of the people, to Amphiaraus. Him (Am-
did the Cadmean (Theban) women with trailing robes admire when they saw face to face his eyes and well-grown frame, as he was busied about the burying of Oedipus, the man of many woes, Once the Danai, servants of Ares, followed him to Thebes, to win renown .... for Polynices. But, though well he knew from Tene all things ordained, the earth yawned and swallowed him up with his horses and jointed chariot, far from deep- - eddying Alpheus. But Electryon married the all-beauteous. daughter. of Pelops and, going up into one bed with her the son of Perses. begat... and Phylonomus and Celaeneus and Amphimachus and... and Eurybius and famous... All these the Taphians, famous shipmen, slew in fight for oxen with shambling hoofs, . in ships across the sea’s wide back. So Alcmena alone was left. to delight her parents... and the daughter of Electryon ... who was -subject in love to the dark-clouded son of Cronos and bare (famous Heracles).
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