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Question 23. Who is Μιξαρχαγέτας in Argos? And who
are the 'Ελάσιοι?
Solution. They call Castor Mixarchagetas, and are of
opinion that he was buried in the country; but they worship Pollux as one of the celestial Deities. Those which
they supposed were able to drive away the falling sickness,
they called Elasii (expellers), esteeming them to be of the
posterity of Alexida the daughter of Amphiaraus.
Plutarch. Plutarch's Morals. Translated from the Greek by several hands. Corrected and revised by. William W. Goodwin, PH. D. Boston. Little, Brown, and Company. Cambridge. Press Of John Wilson and son. 1874. 2.
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