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 destroyed his servants. At this the king was angry and killed the serpent, but Melampus took and buried it. And its offspring, brought up by him, used to lick his ears and inspire him with prophecy. And so, when he was caught while trying to steal the cows of Iphiclus and taken bound to the city of Aegina, and when the house, in which Iphiclus was, was about to fall, he told an old woman, one of the servants of Iphiclus, and in return was released.

In the Great Eoiae Scylla is the daughter of Phoebus and Hecate.

Hesiod in the Great Eoiae says that Phineus was blinded because he told Phrixus the way.

Argus. This is one of the children of Phrixus. These...Hesiod in the Great Eoiae says were born of Iophossa the daughter of Aeëtes. And he says there were four of them, Argus, Phrontis, Melas, and Cytisorus.

Battus. Hesiod tells the story in the Great Eoiae....Magnes was the son of Argus, the son of Phrixus and Perimele, Admetus' daughter, and

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