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The Exercise in Narration 13 Narration 4: On Pitys (1) Pan was in love with Pitys, but Boreas was also his rival in love; for the pine tree Pitys used to be a girl, and they forced her to choose which of them she must favor. Then they showed her what good things they had to offer, each hoping that he would look the better. Boreas blew vigorously and bent the trees down and knocked some of them over, while Pan leaped, jumped, and brought her gifts from the dedications that shepherds had made to him.
Dyck, “Notes on Platonic Lexicography in Antiquity,” HSCP 89 [1985]: 84–86); and Epicharmus (PCG 1:50; CGF 106). For the story, see also Pausanias, Descr. 3 (cf. 3). 11. For the myth, see Ovid, Metam. 306); for Alcmene’s labor, see Homer, Il. 95–125; Apollodorus, Bibl. 5. 16 libanius’s progymnasmata τῆς χαιρούσης, ἡ θεὸς δὲ παρακρουσθεῖσα ἀνεπέτασεν Ἀλκμήνης τὰς ὠδῖνας. καὶ δίκην Ἀκαλανθὶς ἐδίδου τῆς ἀπάτης τὴν μεταβολήν. 9. Περὶ Καπανέως Ἀπειλοῦντα τὸν Καπανέα καὶ ἄκοντος Διὸς αἱρήσειν τὰς Θήβας ὁ Ζεὺς κεραυνῷ βάλλει, τὸν δὲ Ἄδραστον ἵπποις αὐτοῖς διαστᾶσα ἡ γῆ δέχεται.
Her father convinced and brought the girl and led her up to the altar and was about to sacrifice her. Then, instead of his daughter he was holding in his hands a deer from Artemis, who, I suppose, took the girl away and gave the deer in her place. Narration 6: On Danaus and Aegyptus (1) Danaus had fifty daughters, while Aegyptus—and this was Danaus’s brother—was himself also the father of fifty sons. So the latter wanted to marry the former’s daughters to his own sons. And as the weddings were taking place, Danaus put swords into the girls’ hands and ordered them each .