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Meges

Μέγης), a son of Phyleus by Eustyoche, Ctimene, or Timandra, and a grandson of Augeas. He is mentioned among the suitors of Helen, and in forty ships he led his bands from Dulichium and the Echinades against Troy. (Hom. Il. 2.625, &c., 5.69, 13.692,15.520, &c., 19.269 ; Eustath. ad Hom. p. 303; Paus. 10.25.2; Strab. x. pp. 456, 459.) Polygnotus had painted him in the Lesche at Delphi as a wounded man. According to Dictys Cretensis (3.10) he was killed in the Trojan war.

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    • Pausanias, Description of Greece, 10.25.2
    • Homer, Iliad, 2.625
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