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 THE GREEJSjRQggR XjS 109 the same name rushes down, a wild boar (a symbol of this stream) was laying waste the fields of Psophis. Hercules pursued him up into the glaciers, and brought him in chains to Eurystheus, who in terror hid in a cask. On Mount Pholoe, which is near Erymanthus, he lodged with the Centaur Fholus, who was named after the moun- tain and was a counterpart of Chiron, who dwelt on the Thessalian Pelion. As Hercules was being there regaled with the wine which belonged to all the Centaurs in common, he fell into a quarrel with them, and finally killed most of them with his arrows. Pholus and Chi- ron perished also by carelessly wounding themselves with some of the arrows. Then, after Hercules, still operating in Arcadia, had (4) caught the hind of Cery- nea and (5) driven out the storm birds whose nests were 011 the lake of Stymphalus, birds that shot out their feathers like arrows, his native land of Argolis was insured against all dangers. 140. The scenes of the following expeditions were farther away. (6) Upon an Elean local legend rests the story of the cleansing of the stables of king Augeas (< the beaming one ? ), of Elis. Though three thousand cattle had been kept there, the cleansing must be completed in a single day. This feat, according to the tradition, Hercu- les accomplished by conducting the river Menios (' moon river ') through the place. But upon a metope of the temple of Olympian Zeus, the only extant representation in art of this adventure, he is represented as using a long broom. Augeas promised Hercules for his labor a tenth part of his herds, but did not keep his word ; wherefore he and all his champions were afterwards slain by Hercules after a stubborn resistance.