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Apollodorus, Library (ed. Sir James George Frazer), book 2 (search)
s by the Durance at some early period, when this plain was submerged and formed the bed of what was then a bay of the Mediterranean at the mouth of that river and the Rhone” （H. F. Tozer, Selections from Strabo, p. 117）. where Ialebion and Dercynus, sons of Poseidon, attempted to rob him of the kine, but he killed themCompare Tzetzes, Chiliades ii.340ff., who calls the victims Dercynus and Alebion. and went on his way through Tyrrhenia. But at Rhegium a bull broke awayThe author clearly derives the name of Rhegium from this incident （*rh/gion from a)porrh/gnusi）. The story of the escape of the bull, or heifer, and the pursuit of it by Herakles was told by Hellanicus. See Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Ant. Rom. i.35.2. It is somewhat singular that Apollodorus passes so lightly over the exploits of Herakles in Italy, and in particular that he says nothing about those adventures of his