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he married, had a daughter named Hyrmine, but no male offspring. During his reign, Œnomaus, the son of Alxion (or, according to the poets and the common people, of Mars), who then reigned over Pisæa, was expelled from his kingdom by Pelops, the son of Lydus, who arrived there from Asia. After the death of Œnomaus, Pelops obtained Pisæa and added Olympia, which bordered on Pisæa and was under the government of Epeus, to his own dominions. The Eleans report that this Pelops was the first to build a temple to Mercury in the Peloponnese, and sacrificed to the god to appease him for having put Myrtilus to death.

Ætolus, who reigned after Epeus, was forced to flee from the Peloponnese because the sons of Apis called him to account for an involuntary murder he had committed. Ætolus had killed Apis, the son of Jason—who was born in the Arcadian town of Pallantium—by running against him with his chariot in the games called the Azani. From Ætolus, the son of Endymion, those who dwell about the river Achelous are called Ætoli, because Ætolus fled to that part of the continent. But Eleus, who was the son of Eurycyde (the daughter of Endymion) and—if it may be believed—whose father was Neptune, reigned over the Epeans. The present inhabitants are named after this Eleus rather than being called Epeans. Augeas was the son of Eleus.

Those who speak in exalted terms concerning Augeas say he was not the son of Eleus, but of Helios, or the Sun. This Augeas had such a vast number of oxen and goats that the greater part of the land was uncultivated due to the abundance of dung covering it. Hercules, therefore, was persuaded