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But not knowing the course to steer for Troy,
they put in to Mysia and ravaged it, supposing it
to be Troy.1 Now Telephus son of Hercules, was king of the Mysians, and
seeing the country pillaged, he armed the Mysians, chased the Greeks in a crowd to the
ships, and killed many, among them Thersander, son of Polynices, who had made a stand. But
when Achilles rushed at him, Telephus did not abide the onset and was pursued, and in the
pursuit he was entangled in a vine-branch and wounded with a spear in the thigh.
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1 With the following account of the landing of the Greeks in Mysia and their encounter with Telephus, compare Proclus, in Epicorum Graecorum Fragmenta, ed. G. Kinkel, pp. 18ff.; Scholiast on Hom. Il. i.59. The accounts of both these writers agree, to some extent verbally, with that of Apollodorus and are probably drawn from the same source, which may have been the epic Cypria summarized by Proclus. The Scholiast tells us that it was Dionysus who caused Telephus to trip over a vine-branch, because Telephus had robbed the god of the honours that were his due. The incident is alluded to by Pind. I. 8.48(106)ff. The war in Mysia is narrated in more detail by Philostratus, Her. iii.28-36 and Dictys Cretensis ii.1-7. Philostratus, Her. 35 says that the wounded were washed in the waters of the hot Ionian springs, which the people of Smyrna called the springs of Agamemnon.
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