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Hesiod says that (the children of Aniphion and Niobe) were ten sons and ten daughters.

But Hesiod says they were nine boys and ten girls; — unless after all the verses are not Hesiod's but are falsely ascribed to him as are many others.

And Hesiod says that when Oedipus had died at Thebes, Argea the daughter of Adrastus came with others to the funeral of Oedipus.

Tityos the son of Elara.

Cephisus is a river in Orchomenus where also the Graces are worshipped. Eteoclus the son of the river Cephisus first sacrificed to them, as Hesiod says: "which from Lilaea spouts forth its sweet-flowing water...And which flows on by Panopeus and through fenced Glechon and through Orchomenus, winding like a snake."

For the father of Menesthius, Areïthoüs was a Boeotian living at Arnae; and this is in Boeotia, as also Hesiod says.

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