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"And Mares, swift messenger, came to him through the house and brought a silver goblet which he had filled, and gave it to the lord."

"And then Mantes took in his hands the ox's halter and Iphiclus lashed him upon the back. And behind him, with a cup in one hand and a raised sceptre in the other, walked Phylacus and spake amongst the bondmen."

Hesiod in the third book of the Melampodia called Chalcis in Euboea "the land of fair women."

But Hesiod says that Amphilochus was killed by Apollo at Soli.

"And now there is no seer among mortal men such as would know the mind of Zeus who holds the aegis."

 

the author of the Aegimius says that he (Phrixus) was received without intermediary because of the fleece. He says that after the sacrifice he purified the fleece and so

"Holding the fleece he walked into the halls of 271