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Question 41. Whence is it that in Boeotia there is a
river at Eleon called Scamander?
Solution. Deimachus, the son of Elcon and intimate
friend of Hercules, bore his part in the siege of Troy.
But the war proving long (as it seems), he took to him
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Glaucia the daughter of Scamander who had fallen in
love with him, and got her with child: soon after, fighting against the Trojans, he was slain. Glaucia, fearing
that she might be apprehended, fled to Hercules, and acquainted him with her late affection towards Deimachus,
and the familiarity she had with him. Hercules, both out
of commiseration to the woman, as also for joy that there
was an offspring left of so good a man and his intimate
acquaintance, took Glaucia on shipboard; and when she
was delivered of a son, brought her into Boeotia, and committed her and her child to the care of Eleon. The son
was named Scamander, and came to reign over that country. He called the river Inachus by his own name Scamander, and the next rivulet he named from his mother
Glaucia; but the fountain he called Acidusa by his own
wife's name, by whom he had three daughters, which they
have a veneration for to this day, styling them virgins.
Plutarch. Plutarch's Morals. Translated from the Greek by several hands. Corrected and revised by. William W. Goodwin, PH. D. Boston. Little, Brown, and Company. Cambridge. Press Of John Wilson and son. 1874. 2.
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