CATALOGUES OF WOMEN AND EOIAE
80.
"Who bare Autolycus and Philammon, famous in speech...All things that he (Autolycus) took in his hands, he made to disappear,"
81.
"Aepytus again, begot Tlesenor and Peirithöus."
82.
"For Locrus truly was leader of the Lelegian people, whom Zeus the Son of Cronos, whose wisdom is unfailing, gave to Deucalion, stones gathered out of the earth. So out of stones mortal men were made, and they were called people."[1]
83.
"...Ileus whom the lord Apollo, son of Zeus, loved. And he named him by this name, because he found a nymph complaisant[2] and was joined with her in sweet love, on that day when Poseidon and Apollo raised high the wall of the well-built city."
84.
Clymene the daughter of Minyas the son of Poseidon and of Euryanassa, Hyperphas' daughter, was wedded to Phylacus the son of Deïon, and bare Iphiclus, a boy fleet of foot. It is said of him that
- ↑ There is a fancied connection between λᾶος (stone) and λαός (people). The reference is to the stones which Deucalion and Pyrrha transformed into men and women after the Flood.
- ↑ Eustathius identifies Ileus with Oïleus, father of Aias. Here again there is fanciful etymology, Ἰλεύς being similar to ἵλεως (complaisant, gracious).
