The Argonautica

Melampus, Aeolus' grandson, endured in Iphiclus' stalls.

Nor did we hear that mighty Heracles, stout of heart,

made light of the eager summons of Aeson's son.

Yet once the report of the gathered heroes reached Heracles,

he crossed Lyrceian Argos, setting out from Arcadia,

the road on which he carried the boar still living, that fed

in Lampeia's deep glens, around great Erymanthus' marsh.

That boar he brought to Mycenae's first assembly-ground,

and laid it down, bound, writhing, from his massive shoulders;

then, of his own will, despite Eurystheus' intention,

he set forth; Hylas went with him, his worthy attendant,

in youth's first bloom, to bear his shafts and guard the bow.

Next came a scion of godlike Danaus' race,

Nauplius; Clytoneus, Naubolus' son, sired the hero;

Naubolus in turn was Lernus' son; and Lernus, we know, was

the son of Proetus, Nauplius' son. And once the maiden

Amymone, Danaus' daughter, lay with Poseidon and bore

Nauplius, who outshone all other men in seamanship.

Idmon came last of those who had their homes in Argos,

although birds had revealed his own grim approaching doom,

he went, lest his own people grudge his lasting glory.

He was no true son of Abas; rather, the god himself

begot Idmon the prophet, numbered with illustrious Aeolids,

Leto's son, who himself taught Idmon the ways of prophecy,