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[20]
From Mysia they departed to the land of the Bebryces, which was ruled by King Amycus, son of Poseidon and a Bithynian nymph.¹ Being a doughty man he compelled the strangers that landed to box and in that way made an end of them. So going to the Argo as usual, he challenged the best man of the crew to a boxing match. Pollux undertook to box against him and killed him with a blow on the elbow. When the Bebryces made a rush at him, the chiefs snatched up their arms and put them to flight with great slaughter.

Library. Apollodorus. ed. Sir James George Frazer. Cambridge, MA. 1921.

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[20] ἀπὸ δὲ Μυσίας ἀπῆλθον εἰς τὴν Βεβρύκων γῆν, ἧς ἐβασίλευεν Ἄμυκος Ποσειδῶνος παῖς καὶ νύμφης Βιθυνίδος. γενναῖος δὲ ὢν οὗτος τοὺς προσσχόντας ξένους ἠνάγκαζε πυκτεύειν καὶ τοῦτον τὸν τρόπον ἀνῄρει. παραγενόμενος οὖν καὶ τότε ἐπὶ τὴν Ἀργὼ τὸν ἄριστον αὐτῶν εἰς πυγμὴν προεκαλεῖτο. Πολυδεύκης δὲ ὑποσχόμενος πυκτεύσειν πρὸς αὐτόν, πλήξας κατὰ τὸν ἀγκῶνα ἀπέκτεινε. τῶν δὲ Βεβρύκων ὁρμησάντων πρὸς αὐτόν, ἁρπάσαντες οἱ ἀριστεῖς τὰ ὅπλα πολλοὺς φεύγοντας φονεύουσιν αὐτῶν.

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1. As to the visit of the Argonauts to the Bebryces, and the boxing match of Pollux with Amycus, see Ap. Rhod., Argon. ii.1ff. ; Theocritus xxii.27ff. ; Orphica, Argonautica 661ff. ; Valerius Flaccus, Argon. iv.99ff. ; Hyginus, Fab. 17 ; Lactantius Placidus on Statius, Theb. iii.353 ; Scriptores rerum mythicarum Latini, ed. Bode, i. pp. 31, 123 (First Vatican Mythographer 93; Second Vatican Mythographer 140) . The name of the Bithynian nymph, mother of Amycus, was Melie ( Ap. Rhod., Argon. ii.4 ; Hyginus, Fab. 17 ; Serv. Verg. A. 5.373 ).

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