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Hesiod says that Endymion was the son of Aethlius the son of Zeus and Calyce, and received the gift from Zeus: "(To be) keeper of death for his own self when he was ready to die."

The two sons of Actor and Molione....Hesiod has given their descent by calling them after Actor and Molione; but their father was Poseidon.

But Aristarchus is informed that they were twins, not...such as were the Dioscuri, but, on Hesiod's testimony, double in form and with two bodies and joined to one another.

But Hesiod says that he changed himself in one of his wonted shapes and perched on the yoke-boss of Heracles' horses, meaning to fight with the hero; but that Heracles, secretly instructed by Athena, wounded him mortally with an arrow. And he says as follows:

"...and lordly Periclymenus. Happy he! For earth-shaking Poseidon gave him all manner of gifts. At one time he would appear among birds, an eagle; and again at another he would be an ant, a marvel to see; and then a shining swarn of bees; and again at another time a dread relentless snake. 161 M