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 178 HISTORY OF GREECE. Pursuant to the stipulation by which they had bound themselves, the Herakleids retired, and abstained for three generations from pressing their claim upon Peloponnesus-. This valorous exploit of their great martial hero was cited and appealed to by the Tegeates before the battle of Plataea, as the principal evidence of their claim to the second post in the combined army, next in point of honor to that of the Lacedaemonians, and superior to that of the Athenians : the latter replied to them by producing as counter-evi- dence the splendid heroic deeds of Athens, the protection of the Herakleids against Eurystheus, the victory over the Kadmeians of Thebes, and the complete defeat of the Amazons in Attica. 1 Nor can there be any doubt that these legendary glories were both recited by the speakers, and heard by the listeners, with profound and undoubting faith, as well as with heart-stirring admiration. One other person there is Ischys, son of Elatus and grand son of Arkas in the fabulous genealogy of Arcadia whom it would be improper to pass over, inasmuch as his name and adventures are connected with the genesis of the memorable god or hero ^Esculapius, or Asklepius. Koronis, daughter of Phleg- yas, and resident near the lake Bcebeis in Thessaly, was beloved by Apollo and became pregnant by him : unfaithful to the god, she listened to the propositions of Ischys son of Elatus, and con- sented to wed him : a raven brought to Apollo the fatal news, which so incensed him that he changed the color of the bird from white, as it previously had been, into black. 2 Artemis, to 1 Herodot. ix. 27. Echcmus is described by Pindar (01. xi. 69) as gaining the prize of wrestling in the fabulous Olympic games, on their first estab- lishment by Herakles. He also found a place in the Hesiodic Catalogue aa husband of Timandra, the sister of Helen and Klytaemnestra (Hesiod Fragm. 105, p. 318, Marktscheff.). p. 442 ; Pherekydes, Fragm. 8 ; Akusilaus, Fragm. 25, Didot. T^J [lev up 1 dyyeAof ^Ai?e Kopa!;, Ifp^f uirb dairbf Hv&u if q-yct'&eijv, KOI /5' eQpaaev IpY tuSr l 'ka $ot/?<f) aKcpasKOfiy, STI 'lff%vf yfip-e Kopuviv EiA<mJ;?f, $7.Yvao SioyvfiToio -Biiyarpa. (Hesiod, Fr.) The change of the color of the crow is noticed both in Ovid, Metamorph. u. 632, in Antonin. Liberal, c. 20, and in Servius ad Virgil. ^Eneid. vii. 761
 * Apollodor. iii. 10,3; Hesiod, Fragm. 141-142, Maiktscheff. ; Strab. b