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Carthage; and she ruled in it, and there she died, having lived temperately. But Aeneas, having received an oracle, sailed away from Libya, wishing to go to Italy. but when a contrary wind arose, he was cast out with his own ships near Sicily to Calabria in a city called Argyrippa, which was founded by Diomedes, the son of Tydeus. who was an Aetolian by race, 164 tracing his kinship from Oeneus, king of Aetolia. This Oeneus, having taken a wife named Eriboea, had by her Tydeus. and Eriboea died, and he took another wife named Althaea; and he had by her Meleager and a daughter named Deianira. A certain younger man named Achelous, son of Poseidonius, a senator of Tydeus, wooed her. But Achelous, before the wedding, secretly corrupted Deianira, and after this he says to her father Oeneus, I will not otherwise take your daughter, unless you grant me to administer your kingdom. But he was not persuaded by him; and so Achelous, with his own father, rose up against Oeneus and made war on him. And Oeneus was forced to summon from the land of Phthia a noble general, Heracles called Polyphemus, agreeing to give him his own daughter Deianira. Who, coming down with his armed host, joined battle with Poseidonius and his son Achelous. And in the engagement Polyphemus slew with a sword Poseidonius, the father of Achelous; and because of this the poets set forth that Heracles tore off the horn of Achelous, which is his paternal power. And seeing his own father fallen, he flees on horseback; for which reason they also write of him as a hippocentaur. And while Polyphemus Heracles was pursuing him, he turned and shot 165 him in the breast; and immediately Heracles shot back at Achelous, as he was crossing the river named Phorbas. And Achelous, being wounded, was carried from his horse into the streams of the river and perished. And from that time the same river was renamed by those of the land of Aetolia Achelous, until now, as Cephalion the wise set forth. But Polyphemus Heracles died some days later from the wound in the breast. But Meleager, the son of Oeneus, and brother of Tydeus and Deianira, performed a great feat in the land of Calydon, by killing a fearsome boar, with Atalanta, the daughter of Schoeneus, being with him; who, taking the first shot, shoots the boar; for this beast was ravaging all that land. And after the slaying of the beast, Meleager gave its hide to Atalanta, having been smitten with love for her. But when Meleager went to his own father Oeneus, the prize for victory over the beast was demanded from him; and learning that he had given the hide to Atalanta, being enraged against his own son, the olive branch which was kept by Althaea, his own wife and the mother of Meleager, which olive branch Althaea, being pregnant, had desired and eaten, and having swallowed the olive leaf, she immediately gave birth and brought forth the olive leaf along with Meleager; concerning which an oracle was given to his father Oeneus that Meleager would live for so long 166 a time as the olive leaf born with him was kept; which leaf Oeneus, being angry, threw into a fire, and it was burned, being indignant with his own son; and immediately Meleager died, as the wise Euripides set forth in a drama about this same Meleager. And after the reign of Oeneus, his other son Tydeus, the father of Diomedes, reigned over Aetolia. And Diomedes, after the death of his own father Tydeus, reigned over the land of the Argives, having taken a wife from Argos named Aegiale. and having become desperate, he subjugated his own land of Aetolia, having made war

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Καρτάγεναν· καὶ ἐβασίλευσεν ἐν αὐτῇ, καὶ ἐκεῖ τελευτᾷ σωφρόνως ζήσασα. Ὁ δὲ Αἰνείας χρησμὸν λαβὼν ἀπέπλευσεν ἀπὸ τῆς Λιβύης, βουλόμενος ἐπὶ τὴν Ἰταλίαν ἐλθεῖν. ἀνέμου δὲ ἐναντίου γενομένου, ἐξεῤῥίφη μετὰ τῶν ἰδίων πλοίων πλησίον τῆς Σικελίας εἰς τὴν Καλαβρίαν ἐν πόλει λεγομένῃ Ἀργυρίππῃ, τῇ κτισθείσῃ ὑπὸ ∆ιομήδους τοῦ Τυδέως. ὅστις ὑπῆρχεν Αἰτωλὸς τῷ γένει, 164 φέρων τὴν συγγένειαν ἐκ τοῦ Οἰνέως, βασιλέως τῆς Αἰτωλίας. ὅστις Οἰνεὺς ἀγαγόμενος γυναῖκα ὀνόματι Ἐρίβοιαν ἔσχεν ἐξ αὐτῆς τὸν Τυδέα. καὶ ἐτελεύτησεν ἡ Ἐρίβοια, καὶ ἠγάγετο ἑτέραν γυναῖκα ὀνόματι Ἀλθαίαν· καὶ ἔσχεν ἐξ αὐτῆς τὸν Μελέαγρον καὶ θυγατέρα ὀνόματι ∆ηιάνειραν. νεώτερός τις ὀνόματι Ἀχελῷος, υἱὸς Ποσειδωνίου, συγκλητικοῦ τοῦ Τυδέως, ἐμνηστεύσατο. ὁ δὲ Ἀχελῷος πρὸ τοῦ γάμου ἔφθειρε τὴν ∆ηιάνειραν λάθρᾳ, καὶ μετὰ ταῦτα λέγει τῷ πατρὶ αὐτῆς τῷ Οἰνεῖ, Οὐκ ἄλλως λαμβάνω τὴν θυγατέρα σου, εἰ μὴ παραχωρήσεις μοι τὸ βασίλειόν σου διοικεῖν. ὁ δὲ οὐκ ἐπείσθη αὐτῷ· καὶ λοιπὸν σὺν τῷ ἰδίῳ πατρὶ ἀντῆρεν ὁ Ἀχελῷος τῷ Οἰνεῖ καὶ ἐπολέμησεν αὐτῷ. καὶ ἠναγκάσθη ὁ Οἰνεὺς προτρέψασθαι ἐκ τῆς Φθίας χώρας στρατηγὸν γενναῖον, Ἡρακλέα τὸν λεγόμενον Πολύφημον, συνταξάμενος διδόναι αὐτῷ τὴν ἑαυτοῦ θυγατέρα τὴν ∆ηιάνειραν. ὅστις κατελθὼν μετὰ τῆς ἐνόπλου αὐτοῦ στρατιᾶς συνέβαλε πόλεμον μετὰ Ποσειδωνίου καὶ τοῦ υἱοῦ αὐτοῦ Ἀχελῴου. καὶ εἰς τὴν συμβολὴν ξίφει ὁ Πολύφημος τὸν Ποσειδώνιον ἀνεῖλε, τὸν πατέρα Ἀχελῴου· διὰ τοῦτο δὲ ἐξέθεντο οἱ ποιηταὶ ὅτι τὸ κέρας τοῦ Ἀχελῴου ἀπέσπασεν ὁ Ἡρακλῆς, ὅπερ ἐστὶ τὴν πατρικὴν αὐτοῦ δύναμιν. καὶ ἑωρακὼς τὸν ἴδιον αὐτοῦ πατέρα πεσόντα, φεύγει ἔφιππος· διὸ καὶ γράφουσιν αὐτὸν ἱπποκένταυρον. καὶ ἐν τῷ καταδιώκειν αὐτὸν τὸν Πολύφημον Ἡρακλέα στραφεὶς τοξεύει 165 αὐτὸν κατὰ τοῦ μαστοῦ· καὶ εὐθέως ὁ Ἡρακλῆς ἀντετόξευσε τὸν Ἀχελῷον, ὡς περᾷ τὸν ποταμὸν ὀνόματι Φορβάν. καὶ φιβλωθεὶς ὁ Ἀχελῷος κατηνέχθη ἀπὸ τοῦ ἵππου εἰς τὰ ῥεῖθρα τοῦ ποταμοῦ καὶ ἀπώλετο. καὶ μετεκλήθη ἔκτοτε ὁ αὐτὸς ποταμὸς ἀπὸ τῶν τῆς Αἰτωλίας χώρας Ἀχελῷος ἕως τῆς νῦν, καθὰ Κεφαλίων ὁ σοφὸς ἐξέθετο. ὁ δὲ Πολύφημος Ἡρακλῆς ἐκ τῆς πληγῆς τοῦ μαστοῦ μεθ' ἡμέρας τινὰς τελευτᾷ. Μελέαγρος δὲ ὁ τοῦ Οἰνέως υἱός, ἀδελφὸς δὲ τοῦ Τυδέως καὶ ∆ηιανείρας, ἐποίησεν ἆθλον μέγαν ἐν τῇ Καλυδωνίᾳ χώρᾳ, φονεύσας κάπρον φοβερόν, τῆς Ἀταλάντης τῆς θυγατρὸς τοῦ Σχοινέως οὔσης μετ' αὐτοῦ· ἥτις προποιήσασα τοξεύει τὸν σύαγρον· ἐλυμαίνετο γὰρ οὗτος ὁ θὴρ πᾶσαν τὴν χώραν ἐκείνην. καὶ μετὰ τὴν ἀναίρεσιν τοῦ θηρὸς τὸ δέρμα αὐτοῦ ἐχαρίσατο ὁ Μελέαγρος τῇ Ἀταλάντῃ, εἰς ἔρωτα αὐτῆς βληθείς. ἀπελθὼν δὲ ὁ Μελέαγρος πρὸς τὸν ἑαυτοῦ πατέρα Οἰνέα, ἀπῃτήθη παρ' αὐτοῦ τὰ νικητήρια τοῦ θηρός· καὶ μαθὼν ὅτι τῇ Ἀταλάντῃ τὸ δέρμα ἐχαρίσατο, ὀργισθεὶς κατὰ τοῦ ἰδίου υἱοῦ, ὃν εἶχε θαλλὸν ἐλαίας, φυλαττόμενον παρὰ τῇ Ἀλθαίᾳ τῇ ἑαυτοῦ μὲν γυναικί, μητρὶ δὲ τοῦ Μελεάγρου, ὅντινα θαλλὸν τῆς ἐλαίας ἡ Ἀλθαία ἔγκυος οὖσα ἐπιθυμήσασα ἔφαγε, καὶ καταπιοῦσα τὸ φύλλον τῆς ἐλαίας εὐθέως τεκοῦσα συνεγέννησε τὸ τῆς ἐλαίας φύλλον σὺν τῷ Μελεάγρῳ· περὶ οὗ χρησμὸς ἐδόθη τῷ πατρὶ αὐτοῦ τῷ Οἰνεῖ τοσοῦτον χρόνον ζῆν τὸν Μελέαγρον 166 ὅσον χρόνον φυλάττεται τὸ φύλλον τῆς ἐλαίας τὸ μετ' αὐτοῦ γεννηθέν· ὅπερ φύλλον ὀργισθεὶς ὁ Οἰνεὺς εἰς πῦρ ἔβαλε, καὶ ἐκαύθη, ἀγανακτήσας κατὰ τοῦ ἰδίου υἱοῦ· καὶ παραχρῆμα ὁ Μελέαγρος ἐτελεύτησεν, ὡς ὁ σοφὸς Εὐριπίδης δρᾶμα περὶ τοῦ αὐτοῦ Μελεάγρου ἐξέθετο. Μετὰ δὲ τὴν βασιλείαν τοῦ Οἰνέως ἐβασίλευσε τῆς Αἰτωλίας ὁ ἄλλος υἱὸς αὐτοῦ ὁ Τυδεύς, ὁ πατὴρ τοῦ ∆ιομήδους. ὁ δὲ ∆ιομήδης μετὰ τὴν τελευτὴν τοῦ ἰδίου πατρὸς Τυδέως ἐβασίλευσε τῆς Ἀργείων χώρας, ἀγαγόμενος ἐκ τοῦ Ἄργους γυναῖκα ὀνόματι Αἰγιάλειαν. καὶ ἀπονοηθεὶς ὑπέταξε τὴν ἑαυτοῦ χώραν τὴν Αἰτωλίαν, πολεμήσας