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"Or like her (Antiope) whom Boeotian Hyria nurtured as a maid."

Of Zethus and Ampliion. Hesiod and some others relate that they built the walls of Thebes by playing on the lyre.

"There is a land Ellopia with much glebe and rich meadows, and rich in flocks and shambling kine. There dwell men who have many sheep and many oxen, and they are in number past telling, tribes of mortal men. And there upon its border is built a city, Dodona ; and Zeus loved it and (appointed) it to be his oracle, reverenced by men...And they (the doves) lived in the hollow of an oak. From them men of earth carry away all kinds of prophecy, — whosoever fares to that spot and questions the deathless god, and comes bringing gifts with good omens."

"...strife...Of mortals who would have dared to fight him with the spear and charge against him, save only Heraclcs, the great-hearted offspring of Alcaeus? Such an one was (?) strong Meleager loved of Ares, the golden-haired, dear son of Oeneus and Althaea. From his fierce eyes there shone forth portentous fire: and once in high Calydon he slew the destroying beast, the fierce wild 215