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...The Megarians have the
grave of Coroebus... They say that in the reign of Crotopus at Argos,
Psamathe, the daughter of Crotopus, bore a son to Apollo, and being in dire terror
of her father, exposed the child. He was found and destroyed by sheepdogs of Crotopus,
and Apollo sent Vengeance to the city to punish the Argives. They say that she
used to snatch the children from their mothers, until Coroebus to please the Argives
slew Vengeance. Whereat as a second punishment plague fell upon them and stayed
not. So Coroebus of his own accord went to Delphi to submit to the punishment
of the god for having slain Vengeance.
The Pythia would not allow Coroebus to return to Argos,
but ordered him to take up a tripod and carry it out of the sanctuary, and where
the tripod should fall from his hands, there he was to build a temple of Apollo
and to dwell himself. At Mount
Gerania the tripod slipped and fell unawares. Here he dwelt in the village
called the Little Tripods. The grave of Coroebus is in the market-place of the
Megarians. The story of Psamathe
and of Coroebus himself is carved on it in elegiac verses and further, upon the
top of the grave is represented Coroebus slaying Vengeance. These are the oldest
stone images I am aware of having seen among the Greeks.(Paus. 1.143.7)
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