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 EPEIANS AND ELEIANS. 141 And Kteatos, and with Diores son of Amarynceus. Meges, the eon of Phyleus, commands the contingent from Dulichion and the Echinades. 1 Polyxenos returns safe from Troy, is succeeded by his son Amphimachos, named after the Epeian chief who had fallen before Troy, and he again by another Eleios, in whose time the Dorians and the Herakleids invade Peloponnesus. 2 These two names, barren of actions or attributes, are probably introduced by the genealogists whom Pausanias followed, to fill up the supposed interval between the Trojan war and the Dorian invasion. We find the ordinary discrepancies in respect to the series and the members of this genealogy. Thus some called Epeios son of Aethlius, others son of Endymion : 3 a third pedigree, which car ries the sanction of Aristotle and is followed by Conon, designated Eleios, the first settler of Elis, as son of Poseidon and Eurypyle, daughter of Endymion, and Epeios and Alexis as the two sons of Eleios. 4 And Pindar himself, in his ode to Epharmostus the Locrian, introduces with much emphasis another king of the Epeians named Opus, whose daughter, pregnant by Zeus, was conveyed by that god to the old and childless king Locrus : the child when born, adopted by Locrus and named Opus, became the eponymous hero of the city so called in Locris. 5 Moreover Heka- tseus the Milesian not only affirmed (contrary both to the Iliad and the Odyssey) that the Epeians and the Eleians were different people, but also added that the Epeians had assisted Herakles in his expedition against Augeas and Elis ; a narrative very differ- ent from that of Apollodorus and Pausanias, and indicating besides that he must have had before him a genealogy varying from theirs. 6 It has already been mentioned that - a^Aet avarpaTevffai rot)f 'ETrciovf not avvaveheiv avrip TUV re Avytav no! 'H/Wi> (Hekat. np. Strab. viii. p. 341 ).
 * Pindar, Olymp. ix. 62: Schol. ibid. 86. 'O?roOvrof rjv SvyuTTi