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But Idas came
to Messene, and Apollo, falling in with him,
would have robbed him of the damsel. As they fought for the girl's hand, Zeus parted them
and allowed the maiden herself to choose which of the two she would marry; and she,
because she feared that Apollo might desert her in her old age, chose Idas for her
husband.1
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1 Compare Scholiast on Hom. Il. ix.557 （who cites Simonides）; Eustathius on Hom. Il. ix.557 p. 776; Tzetzes, Scholiast on Lycophron 561; Paus. 5.18.2.
Apollodorus. Apollodorus, The Library, with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. Includes Frazer's notes.
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