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 "on the right...and he, rushing upon her,...drawing back slightly towards the left. And on them was laid an unenviable struggle: for she, even fair, swift-footed Atalanta, ran scorning the gifts of golden Aphrodite; but with him the race was for his life, either to find his doom, or to escape it. Therefore with thoughts of guile he said to her:

"'O daughter of Schoeneus, pitiless in heart, receive these glorious gifts of the goddess, golden Aphrodite...'

"But he, following lightly on his feet, cast the first apple : and, swiftly as a Harpy, she turned back and snatched it. Then he cast the second to the ground with his hand. And now fair, swift-footed Atalanta had two apples and was near the goal; but Hippomenes cast the third apple to the ground, and therewith escaped death and black fate. And he stood panting and..."

"And the daughter of Arabus, whom worthy Hermaon begat with Thronia, daughter of the lord Belus."

"Argos which was waterless Danaus made well-watered."

Aegyptus himself did not go to Argos, but sent his, sons, fifty in number, as Hesiod represented. 167