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[9] But afterwards the brothers fell out, and Neleus, being banished, came to Messene, and founded Pylus, and married Chloris,¹ daughter of Amphion, by whom he had a daughter, Pero, and sons, to wit, Taurus, Asterius, Pylaon, Deimachus, Eurybius, Epilaus, Phrasius, Eurymenes, Evagoras, Alastor, Nestor and Periclymenus, whom Poseidon granted the power of changing his shape. And when Hercules was ravaging Pylus, in the fight Periclymenus turned himself into a lion, a snake, and a bee, but was slain by Hercules with the other sons of Neleus. Nestor alone was saved, because he was brought up among the Gerenians.² He married Anaxibia, daughter of Cratieus,³ and begat daughters, Pisidice and Polycaste, and sons, Perseus, Stratichus, Aretus, Echephron, Pisistratus, Antilochus, and Thrasymedes.

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[9] ἐστασίασαν δὲ ὕστερον πρὸς ἀλλήλους, καὶ Νηλεὺς μὲν ἐκπεσὼν ἧκεν εἰς Μεσσήνην καὶ Πύλον κτίζει, καὶ γαμεῖ Χλωρίδα τὴν Ἀμφίονος, ἐξ ἧς αὐτῷ γίνεται θυγάτηρ μὲν Πηρώ, ἄρρενες δὲ Ταῦρος Ἀστέριος Πυλάων Δηίμαχος Εὐρύβιος Ἐπίλαος Φράσιος Εὐρυμένης Εὐαγόρας Ἀλάστωρ Νέστωρ Περικλύμενος, ᾧ δὴ καὶ Ποσειδῶν δίδωσι μεταβάλλειν τὰς μορφάς, καὶ μαχόμενος ὅτε Ἡρακλῆς ἐξεπόρθει Πύλον, γινόμενος ὁτὲ μὲν λέων ὁτὲ δὲ ὄφις ὁτὲ δὲ μέλισσα, ὑφʼ Ἡρακλέους μετὰ τῶν ἄλλων Νηλέως παίδων ἀπέθανεν. ἐσώθη δὲ Νέστωρ μόνος, ἐπειδὴ παρὰ Γερηνίοις ἐτρέφετο· ὃς γήμας Ἀναξιβίαν τὴν Κρατιέως θυγατέρας μὲν Πεισιδίκην καὶ Πολυκάστην ἐγέννησε, παῖδας δὲ Περσέα Στράτιχον Ἄρητον Ἐχέφρονα Πεισίστρατον Ἀντίλοχον Θρασυμήδην.

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1. Compare Hom. Od. 11.281ff. ; Paus. 4.2.5 .

2. See below, Apollod. 2.7.3 , and compare Hom. Il. 11.690-693 , with the Scholia; Ov. Met. 12.549ff. ; Hyginus, Fab. 10 . As to Periclymenus, see the verses of Hesiod quoted by the Scholiast on Ap. Rhod., Argon. i.156 , according to whom Periclymenus received from Poseidon the power of turning himself into an eagle, an ant, a bee, or a snake; but Herakles, so says the scholiast, killed him with a blow of his club when he had assumed the form of a fly. According to another account, it was in the form of a bee that Periclymenus was slain by Herakles ( Eustathius on Hom. Od. xi.285, pp. 1685ff. ; Scholiast on Hom. Il. ii.336 ). Ov. Met. 12.549ff. says that Herakles shot him in the shape of an eagle, and this version is followed by Hyginus, Fab. 10 . Periclymenus is also reported to have been able to change himself into any animal or tree he pleased ( Eustathius, on Hom. Od. xi.285, pp. 1685ff. ; Scholiast on Hom. Od. xi.286 ).

3. According to Homer ( Hom. Od. 3.452 ), the wife of Nestor was Eurydice, daughter of Clymenus.

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