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Autonoe and Aristaeus had a son Actaeon, who was bred by Chiron to be a hunter and then
afterwards was devoured on Cithaeron by his own dogs.1 He perished in that way, according to Acusilaus, because Zeus
was angry at him for wooing Semele; but according to the more general opinion, it was
because he saw Artemis bathing. And they say that the goddess at once transformed him into
a deer, and drove mad the fifty dogs in his pack, which devoured him unwittingly. Actaeon
being gone, the dogs sought their master howling lamentably, and in the search they came
to the cave of Chiron, who fashioned an image of Actaeon, which soothed their grief.
“ [ The names of Actaeon's dogs from the . . . . So
Now surrounding his fair body, as it were that of a beast,
The strong dogs rent it. Near Arcena first.
. . . . after her a mighty brood,
Lynceus and Balius goodly-footed, and Amarynthus. —
And these he enumerated continuously by name.
And then Actaeon perished at the instigation of Zeus.
For the first that drank their master's black blood
Were Spartus and Omargus and Bores, the swift on the track.
These first ate of Actaeon and lapped his blood.
And after them others rushed on him eagerly . . . .
To be a remedy for grievous pains to men. ]
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