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AEGIMIUS (fragments)

Fragment #1 -- Scholiast on Apollonius Rhodius, Arg. iii. 587: But the author of the "Aegimius" says that he

(Phrixus) was received without intermediary because of the fleece (1). He says that after the sacrifice he purified

the fleece and so: `Holding the fleece he walked into the halls of Aeetes.'

Fragment #2 -- Scholiast on Apollonius Rhodius, Arg. iv. 816: The author of the "Aegimius" says in the secondbook that Thetis used to throw the children she had by Peleus into a cauldron of water, because she wished to learn

where they were mortal....

....And that after many had perished Peleus was annoyed, and prevented her from throwing Achilles into thecauldron.

Fragment #3 -- Apollodorus, ii. 1.3.1: Hesiod and Acusilaus say that she (Io) was the daughter of Peiren. While shewas holding the office of priestess of Hera, Zeus seduced her, and being discovered by Hera, touched the girl and

changed her into a white cow, while he swore that he had no intercourse with her. And so Hesiod says that oathstouching the matter of love do not draw down anger from the gods: `And thereafter he ordained that an oath

concerning the secret deeds of the Cyprian should be without penalty for men.'

Fragment #4 -- Herodian in Stephanus of Byzantium:

`(Zeus changed Io) in the fair island Abantis, which the gods, who are eternally, used to call Abantis aforetime, but

Zeus then called it Euboea after the cow.' (2)

Fragment #5 -- Scholiast on Euripides, Phoen. 1116:

`And (Hera) set a watcher upon her (Io), great and strong Argus, who with four eyes looks every way. And thegoddess stirred in him unwearying strength: sleep never fell upon his eyes; but he kept sure watch always.'

Fragment #6 -- Scholiast on Homer, Il. xxiv. 24:

`Slayer of Argus'. According to Hesiod's tale he (Hermes) slew

(Argus) the herdsman of Io.

Fragment #7 -- Athenaeus, xi. p. 503: And the author of the "Aegimius", whether he is Hesiod or Cercops of

Miletus (says): `There, some day, shall be my place of refreshment, O leader of the people.'

Fragment #8 -- Etym. Gen.: Hesiod (says there were so called) because they settled in three groups: `And they all

were called the Three-fold people, because they divided in three the land far from their country.' For (he says) that

three Hellenic tribes settled in Crete, the Pelasgi, Achaeans and Dorians. And these have been called Three-foldPeople.