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[157] According to the legend given by the scholia, Bellerophon, who was originally called “Ἱππόνοος”, got his name from slaying one “Βέλλερος”, a prince in Corinth. Being exiled for blood-guiltiness he came to Argos (or Tiryns) to seek purification from King Proitos. But this of course is not Homeric, the whole conception of purification being later. In fact, with the single exception of the name “Ἱππόνοος”, it is merely made up from the story itself to explain how Bellerophon, a Corinthian, is found with the Tirynthian Proitos.

The Iliad, edited, with apparatus criticus, prolegomena, notes, and appendices. Walter Leaf. London. Macmillan. 1900.

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