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But the sons of Agrius, to wit, Thersites,
Onchestus, Prothous, Celeutor, Lycopeus, Melanippus, wrested the kingdom from Oeneus and
gave it to their father, and more than that they imprisoned Oeneus in his lifetime and
tormented him.1 Nevertheless Diomedes afterwards came secretly with
Alcmaeon from Argos and put to death all the
sons of Agrius, except Onchestus and Thersites, who had fled betimes to Peloponnese; and as Oeneus was old, Diomedes gave the
kingdom to Andraemon who had married the daughter of Oeneus, but Oeneus himself he took
with him to Peloponnese. Howbeit, the sons of
Agrius, who had made their escape, lay in wait for the old man at the hearth of Telephus
in Arcadia, and killed him. But Diomedes conveyed
the corpse to Argos and buried him in the place
where now a city is called Oenoe after him.2 And having married Aegialia,
daughter of Adrastus or, as some say, of Aegialeus, he went to the wars against Thebes and Troy.
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1 With this and what follows compare Paus. 2.25.2; Scholiast on Aristoph. Ach. 418; Ant. Lib. 37; Hyginus, Fab. 175. The story furnished Euripides with the theme of a tragedy called Oeneus. See TGF (Nauck 2nd ed.), pp. 536ff.
2 Compare Paus. 2.25.2.
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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