Reigning over Calydon, Oeneus was the first who received a vine-plant from
Dionysus.1
He married Althaea, daughter of Thestius, and begat Toxeus, whom he slew with his own hand
because he leaped over the ditch.2 And besides Toxeus
he had Thyreus and Clymenus, and a daughter Gorge, whom Andraemon married, and another
daughter Deianira, who is said to have been begotten on Althaea by Dionysus. This Deianira
drove a chariot and practised the art of war, and Hercules wrestled for her hand with
Achelous.3
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1 Compare Hyginus, Fab. 129.
2 So Romulus is said to have killed Remus for leaping over the rising wall of Rome （Livy i.7.2）.
3 See Apollod. 2.7.5, with the note.
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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