OF GREECE.

The Elean women, finding their country becoming desolate while they were in the prime of their age, are said to have prayed to Minerva that they might become pregnant as soon as they had relations with men. Their prayer was granted, and they built a temple to Minerva under the title of the Mother. The place where this first connection between the men and women occurred is called Bady; this is also the local name of the river that runs through the area.

As soon as Phyleus had properly settled the affairs of Elis, he returned to Dulichium. Augeas eventually ended his days, worn out by old age. After this, Agasthenes, the other son of Augeas, together with Amphimachus and Thalpius, took over the government. Since the sons of Actor had married the two daughters of Dexamenus, king of the Olenians, Amphimachus was the offspring of one of them, Theronice, and Thalpius was the son of Eurytus and Therophone.

However, neither Amarynceus nor his son Diores lived a private life; this is proven by Homer in his catalogue of the Eleans. He records that their entire fleet consisted of forty ships, half of which were commanded by Amphimachus and Thalpius. Of the remaining twenty, Diores, the son of Amarynceus, led ten, and Polyxenus, the son of Agasthenes, led the other ten. Amphimachus was the son born to Polyxenus after his return from Troy. As it appears to me, Polyxenus gave the boy this name because of the friendship he had formed with Amphimachus, the son of Cteatus, who died at Troy. Eleus was the son of this Amphimachus. While Eleus reigned in Elis, the Dorienses—a group of Greeks descending from the Dorians—with the sons of Aristomachus, gathered an army and attempted to return to the Peloponnesus.