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"Straightway Lynceus, trusting in his swift feet, made for Taygetus. He climbed its highest peak and looked throughout the whole isle of Pelops, son of Tantalus; and soon the glorious hero with his dread eyes saw horse-taming Castor and athlete Polydeuces both hidden within a hollow oak."

(Stasinus?) writes that Castor was killed with a spear shot by Idas the son of Aphareus.

"Menelaus, know that the gods made wine the best thing for mortal man to scatter cares."

Either he follows Homer who spoke of the three daughters of Agamemnon, or—like the writer of the Cypria—he makes them four, (distinguishing) Iphigeneia and Iphianassa.

"So they feasted all day long, taking nothing from their own houses; for Agamemnon, king of men, provided for them."

"I never thought to enrage so terribly the stout heart of Achilles, for very well I loved him."

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