Ἐν Λέσβῳ παιδὸς Ἀπριάτης Τράμβηλος ὁ Τελαμῶνος ἐρασθεὶς πολλὰ ἐποιεῖτο εἰς τὸ προσαγαγέσθαι τὴν κόρην· ὡς δὲ ἐκείνη οὐ πάνυ ἐνεδίδου, ἐνενοεῖτο δόλῳ καὶ ἀπάτῃ περιγενέσθαι αὐτῆς. Πορευομένην οὖν ποτε σὺν θεραπαινιδίοις ἐπί τι τῶν πατρῴων χωρίων, ὃ πλησίον τῆς θαλάσσης ἔκειτο, λοχήσας εἷλεν.
Ὡς δὲ ἐκείνη πολὺ μᾶλλον ἀπεμάχετο περὶ τῆς παρθενίας, ὀργισθεὶς Τράμβηλος ἔρριψεν αὐτὴν εἰς τὴν θάλασσαν· ἐτύγχανεν δὲ ἀγχιβαθὴς οὖσα. Καὶ ἡ μὲν ἄρα οὕτως ἀπολώλει· τινὲς μέντοι ἔφασαν διωκομένην ἑαυτὴν ῥῖψαι.
Τράμβηλον δὲ οὐ πολὺ μετέπειτα τίσις ἐλάμβανεν ἐκ θεῶν· ἐπειδὴ γὰρ Ἀχιλλεὺς ἐκ τῆς Λέσβου πολλὴν λείαν ἀποτεμόμενος ἤγαγεν, οὗτος, ἐπαγαγομένων αὐτὸν τῶν ἐγχωρίων βοηθόν, συνίσταται αὐτῷ.
Ἔνθα δὴ πληγεὶς εἰς τὰ στέρνα παραχρῆμα πίπτει· ἀγάμενος δὲ τῆς ἀλκῆς αὐτὸν Ἀχιλλεὺς ἔτι ἔμπνουν ἀνέκρινεν ὅστις τε ἦν καὶ ὁπόθεν· ἐπεὶ δὲ ἔγνω παῖδα Τελαμῶνος ὄντα, πολλὰ κατοδυράμενος ἐπὶ τῆς ἠιόνος μέγα χῶμα ἔχωσε. Τοῦτο ἔτι νῦν ἡρῷον Τραμβήλου καλεῖται.
From the Thrax of Euphorion
1. Trambelus the son of Telamon fell in love with a girl named Apriate in Lesbos. He used every effort to gain her: but, as she shewed no signs at all of relenting, he determined to win her by strategy and guile. 2. She was walking one day with her attendant handmaids to one of her father’s domains which was by the seashore, and there he laid an ambush for her and made her captive; but she struggled with the greatest violence to protect her virginity, and at last Trambelus in fury threw her into the sea, which happened at that point to be deep inshore. Thus did she perish; the story has, however, been related by others in the sense that she threw herself in while fleeing from his pursuit. 3. It was not long before divine vengeance fell upon Trambelus: Achilles was ravaging Lesbos and carrying away great quantities of booty, and Trambelus got together a company of the inhabitants of the island, and went out to meet him in battle. 4. In the course of it he received a wound in the breast and instantly fell to the ground; while he was still breathing, Achilles, who had admired his valour, inquired of his name and origin. When he was told that he was the son of Telamon, he bewailed him long and deeply, and piled up a great barrow for him on the beach: it is still called “the hero Trambelus’ mound.”
Ἔχει δὲ λόγος καὶ Ἀλκινόην, τὴν Πολύβου μὲν τοῦ Κορινθίου θυγατέρα, γυναῖκα δὲ Ἀμφιλόχου τοῦ Δρύαντος, κατὰ μῆνιν Ἀθηνᾶς ἐπιμανῆναι ξένῳ Σαμίῳ·
Ξάνθος αὐτῷ ὄνομα. Ἐπὶ μισθῷ γὰρ αὐτὴν ἀγαγομένην χερνῆτιν γυναῖκα Νικάνδρην καὶ ἐργασαμένην ἐνιαυτὸν ὕστερον ἐκ τῶν οἰκίων ἐλάσαι, μὴ ἐντελῆ τὸν μισθὸν ἀποδοῦσαν· τὴν δὲ ἀράσασθαι πολλὰ Ἀθηνᾷ τίσασθαι αὐτὴν ἀντ’ ἀδίκου στερήσεως· ὅθεν εἰς τοσοῦτον ἐλθεῖν, ὥστε ἀπολιπεῖν οἶκόν τε καὶ παῖδας ἤδη γεγονότας, συνεκπλεῦσαί τε τῷ Ξάνθῳ·
γενομένην δὲ κατὰ μέσον πόρον ἔννοιαν λαβεῖν τῶν εἰργασμένων, καὶ αὐτίκα πολλά τε δάκρυα προΐεσθαι καὶ ἀνακαλεῖν ὁτὲ μὲν ἄνδρα κουρίδιον, ὁτὲ δὲ τοὺς παῖδας· τέλος δὲ πολλὰ τοῦ Ξάνθου παρηγοροῦντος καὶ φαμένου γυναῖκα ἕξειν, μὴ πειθομένην ῥῖψαι ἑαυτὴν εἰς θάλασσαν.
From the Curses of Moero
1. ALCINOE, so the story goes, was the daughter of Polybus of Corinth and the wife of Amphilochus the son of Dryas; by the wrath of Athene she became infatuated with a stranger from Samos, named Xanthus. This was the reason of her visitation: she had hired a woman named Nicandra to come and spin for her, but after she had worked for her for a year, she turned her out of her house without paying her the full wages she had promised, and Nicandra had earnestly prayed Athene to avenge her for the unjust withholding of her due. 2. Thus afflicted, Alcinoe reached such a state that she left her home and the little children she had borne to Amphilochus, and sailed away with Xanthus; but in the middle of the voyage she came to realise what she had done. She straightway shed many tears, calling often, now upon her young husband and now upon her children, and though Xanthus did his best to comfort her, saying that he would make her his wife, she would not listen to him, but threw herself into the sea.
Διαφόρως δὲ ἱστορεῖται περὶ Κυζίκου τοῦ Αἰνέου· οἱ μὲν γὰρ αὐτὸν ἔφασαν ἁρμοσάμενον Λάρισαν τὴν Πιάσου, ᾗ ὁ πατὴρ ἐμίγη πρὸ γάμου, μαχόμενον ἀποθανεῖν· τινὲς δὲ προσφάτως γήμαντα Κλείτην συμβαλεῖν δι’ ἄγνοιαν τοῖς μετὰ Ἰάσονος ἐπὶ τῆς Ἀργοῦς πλέουσι, καὶ οὕτως πεσόντα πᾶσι μὲν τοῖς ἄλλοις ἀλγεινὸν πόθον ἐμβαλεῖν, ἐξόχως δὲ τῇ Κλείτῃ· ἰδοῦσα γὰρ αὐτὸν ἐρριμμένον, περιεχύθη καὶ πολλὰ κατωδύρατο, νύκτωρ δὲ λαθοῦσα τὰς θεραπαινίδας ἀπό τινος δένδρου ἀνήρτησεν ἑαυτήν.
From the Apollodorus of Euphorion: the latter part from the first book of the Argonautica of Apollonius.
1. There are various forms of the story of Cyzicus the son of Aeneus. Some have told how he married Larisa the daughter of Piasus, with whom her father had to do before she was married, and afterwards died in battle; others, how when he had but recently married Clite, he met in battle (not knowing who his adversaries were) the heroes who were sailing with Jason in the Argo; and that his fall in this combat caused the liveliest regret to all, but to Clite beyond all measure. 2. Seeing him lying dead, she flung her arms round him and bewailed him sorely, and then at night she avoided the watch of her serving-maids and hung herself from a tree.
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