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See Pind. O. 3.29(53)ff., with the Scholiast.
Howbeit, by pleading necessity and laying the blame on Eurystheus, he appeased the anger
of the goddess and carried the beast alive to Mycenae.
As a fourth labour he ordered him to bring the Erymanthian boar alive;As to the Erymanthian boar and the centaurs, see Soph. Trach. 1095ff.; Diod. 4.12;
Tzetzes, Chiliades ii.268ff.; Hyginus, Fab. 30. The boar's
tusks were said to be preserved in a sanctuary of Apollo at Cumae in Campania （Paus.
8.24.5）. now that animal ravaged Psophis, sallying from a mountain which they call Erymanthus. So passing
through Pholoe he was entertained by the centaur Pholus, a son of Silenus by a Melian nymph.As to these nymphs, see Hesiod, Th. 187. The name perhaps means an ash-tree nymph
（from meli/a, an ash tree）, as Dryad
means an oak tree nymph （from dru=s, an oak
tree）. He set roast meat before Hercules, while he himself ate his meat
Apollodorus, Epitome (ed. Sir James George Frazer), book E (search)
lus 23;
Arrian, Anabasis vii.20.5; Zenobius, Cent. iv.92;
Tzetzes, Chiliades i.498ff.; Severus, Narr. 5, in Westermann's
Mythographi Graeci, Appendix Narrationum, 32. p. 373; Scholiast on Hom.
Il. ii.145; Ov. Met. 8.183-235; Hyginus,
Fab. 40; Scriptores rerum mythicarum Latini, ed. Bode, i. pp. 16, 117
(First Vatican Mythographer 43, Second Vatican Mythographer 125). According to
one account, Daedalus landed from his flight at Cumae, where he dedicated his wings to Apollo. See Verg. A. 6.14ff.; Juvenal iii.25. The myth of the flight of
Daedalus and Icarus is rationalized by Diod. 4.77.5ff. and Paus. 9.11.4ff. According to Diodorus, the two were provided
by Pasiphae with a ship in which they escaped, but in landing on a certain island Icarus
fell into the sea and was drowned. According to Pausanias, father and son sailed in
separate ships, scudding before the wind with sails, which Daedalu
Diodorus Siculus, Library, Book XI, Chapter 51 (search)
474
B.C.When Acestorides
was archon in Athens, in Rome Caeso Fabius and
Titus Verginius succeeded to the consulship. And in this year Hieron, the king of the
Syracusans, when ambassadors came to him from Cumae
in Italy and asked his aid in the war which the
Tyrrhenians, who were at that time masters of the sea, were waging against them, he dispatched
to their aid a considerable number of triremes. And after the
commanders of this fleet had put in at Cumawho were at that time masters of the sea, were waging against them, he dispatched
to their aid a considerable number of triremes. And after the
commanders of this fleet had put in at Cumae,
joining with the men of that region they fought a naval battle with the Tyrrhenians, and
destroying many of their ships and conquering them in a great sea-fight, they humbled the
Tyrrhenians and delivered the Cumaeans from their fears, after which they sailed back to
Syracuse.
he work of Nicias. There is an ivory chair on which is a young and beautiful woman, by whose side is a handmaid carrying a sunshade. There is also a young man, who is standing.
He is too young for a beard, and wears a tunic with a purple cloak over it. By his side is a servant carrying javelins and leading hounds. I could not discover their names, but anyone can conjecture that here man and wife share a common grave.
The founder of Triteia is said by some to have been Celbidas, who came from Cumae in the country of the Opici. Others say that Ares mated with Triteia the daughter of Triton, that this maiden was priestess to Athena, and that Melanippus, the son of Ares and Triteia, founded the city when he grew up, naming it after his mother.
In Triteia is a sanctuary of the gods called Almighty, and their images are made of clay. In honor of these every year they celebrate a festival, exactly the same sort of festival as the Greeks hold in honor of Dionysus. There is also a temple of At
is said to be sacred to Pan. One might regard Lampeia as a part of Mount Erymanthus. Homer saysHom. Il. 7.102 that in Taygetus and Erymanthus . . . hunter . . . so . . . of Lampeia, Erymanthus, and passing through Arcadia, with Mount Pholoe on the right and the district of Thelpusa on the left, flows into the Alpheius.
There is also a legend that Heracles at the command of Eurystheus hunted by the side of the Erymanthus a boar that surpassed all others in size and in strength. The people of Cumae among the Opici say that the boar's tusks dedicated in their sanctuary of Apollo are those of the Erymanthian boar, but the saying is altogether improbable.
In Psophis there is a sanctuary of Aphrodite surnamed Erycine; I found only ruins of it remaining, but the people said that it was established by the sons of Psophis. Their account is probable, for in Sicily too, in the territory of Eryx, is a sanctuary of Erycine, which from the remotest times has been very holy, and quite as rich as th
because the men of those days called idai places that were thickly wooded. The verse about Marpessus and the river Aidoneus is cut out of the oracles by the Erythraeans.
The next woman to give oracles in the same way, according to Hyperochus of Cumae, a historian, was called Demo, and came from Cumae in the territory of the Opici. The Cumaeans can point to no oracle given by this woman, but they show a small stone urn in a sanctuary of Apollo, in which they say are placed the bones of the SiCumae in the territory of the Opici. The Cumaeans can point to no oracle given by this woman, but they show a small stone urn in a sanctuary of Apollo, in which they say are placed the bones of the Sibyl.
Later than Demo there grew up among the Hebrews above Palestine a woman who gave oracles and was named Sabbe. They say that the father of Sabbe was Berosus, and her mother Erymanthe. But some call her a Babylonian Sibyl, others an Egyptian.
Phaennis, daughter of a king of the Chaonians, and the Peleiae （Doves） at Dodona also gave oracles under the inspiration of a god, but they were not called by men Sibyls. To learn the date of Phaennis and to read her oracles ... for Phaennis was born
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Pythian 1For Hieron of AetnaChariot Race470 B. C. (search)
ar the cry of the Pierian Muses, on earth or on the irresistible sea;among them is he who lies in dread Tartarus, that enemy of the gods, Typhon with his hundred heads. Once the famous Cilician cave nurtured him, but now the sea-girt cliffs above Cumae, and Sicily too, lie heavy on his shaggy chest. And the pillar of the sky holds him down,snow-covered Aetna, year-round nurse of bitter frost,
from whose inmost caves belch forth the purest streams of unapproachable fire. In the daytime her riverto the people and turn them towards harmonious peace. I entreat you, son of Cronus, grant that the battle-shouts of the Carthaginians and Etruscans stay quietly at home, now that they have seen their arrogance bring lamentation to their ships off Cumae.
Such were their sufferings, when they were conquered by the leader of the Syracusans—a fate which flung their young men from their swift ships into the sea,delivering Hellas from grievous bondage. From Salamis I will win as my reward the gratitu
ght from there; for not only in the territory of Siris, but also at Rome, at Lavinium, and at Luceria, Athene is called "Trojan Athena," as though brought from Troy. And further, the daring deed of the Trojan women is current in numerous places, and appears incredible, although it is possible. According to some, however, both Siris and the Sybaris which is on the TeuthrasThe "Teuthras" is otherwise unknown, except that there was a small river of that name, which cannot be identified, near Cumae (see Propertius 1. 11.11 and Silius Italicus 11.288). The river was probably named after Teuthras, king of Teuthrania in Mysia (see 12. 8. 2). But there seems to be no evidence of Sybarites in that region. Meineke and others are probably right in emending to the "Trais" (now the Trionto), on which, according to Diod. Sic. 12.22, certain Sybarites took up their abode in 445 B.C. were founded by the Rhodians. According to Antiochus, when the Tarantini were at war with the Thurii and their
agas （Agrigentum）, so called from the river of
that name, and made Aristonous and Pystilus their founders; giving their own institutions to the colony.
Zancle was originally founded by pirates from Cuma, the Chalcidian town in
the country of the Opicans: afterwards, however, large numbers came from
Chalcis and the rest of Euboea, and helped to people the place; the founders being Perieres and Crataemenes from Cuma and Chalcis
respectively.
It first had the name of Zancle given it by the Sicels, because the place
is shaped like a sickle, which the Sicels call Zanclon; but upon the original settlers being afterwards expelled by some Samians
and other Ionians who landed in Sicily flying from the Medes,
and the Samians in their turn not long afterwards by Anaxilas, tyrant of
as active as ever, and who even without the
Peloponnesians found themselves in sufficient force to effect the revolt of
the cities and also wished to have as many companions in peril as possible,
made an expedition with thirteen ships of their own to Lesbos; the instructions from Lacedaemon being to go to that island next, and from
thence to the Hellespont.
Meanwhile the land forces of the Peloponnesians who were with the Chians
and of the allies on the spot, moved along shore for Clazomenae and Cuma,
under the command of Eualas, a Spartan; while the fleet under Diniades, one of the Perioeci,
first sailed up to Methymna and caused it to revolt, and, leaving four
ships there, with the rest procured the revolt of Mitylene.
