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-Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers, by Kathleen Freeman, [1948]+Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers. A complete translation of the Fragments in Diels, __Fragmente der Vorsokratiker__ by Kathleen Freeman. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press [1948] This text is in the public domain in the US because its copyright was not renewed in a timely fashion as required by law at the time. The chapters are numbered as in the Fifth Edition of Diels, __Fragmente der Vorsokratiker__. The numbers in brackets are those of the Fourth Edition.
  
-====== 9. ACUSILÂUS OF ARGOS ======+====== Acusilaus of Argos: Fragments ======
  
 Acusilâus of Argos lived probably in the sixth century B.C. Acusilâus of Argos lived probably in the sixth century B.C.
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 40a. Poseidon united with Caenê daughter of Elatus. Afterwards, since she did not wish to have a child by him or anyone else, Poseidon turned her into a man (Caeneus) invulnerable, having strength greater than that of all the men of his day; and whenever anyone tried to wound him with iron or bronze, he was at once held fast. This Caeneus became king of the Lapithae and used to make war on the Centaurs. Later he set up a javelin in the market-place, and demanded to be accounted a god. This was displeasing to the gods, and Zeus seeing him doing this threatened him and sent the Centaurs against him, and they cut him down to the ground where he stood, and set a rock above as a grave-stone, and he died. 40a. Poseidon united with Caenê daughter of Elatus. Afterwards, since she did not wish to have a child by him or anyone else, Poseidon turned her into a man (Caeneus) invulnerable, having strength greater than that of all the men of his day; and whenever anyone tried to wound him with iron or bronze, he was at once held fast. This Caeneus became king of the Lapithae and used to make war on the Centaurs. Later he set up a javelin in the market-place, and demanded to be accounted a god. This was displeasing to the gods, and Zeus seeing him doing this threatened him and sent the Centaurs against him, and they cut him down to the ground where he stood, and set a rock above as a grave-stone, and he died.
  
-Doubtful+//Doubtful//
  
 41. (Scholiast on Pindar, Olympian, VII. 42: Pindar appears to have used the ancient historiographer in his genealogy of Amyntor). 41. (Scholiast on Pindar, Olympian, VII. 42: Pindar appears to have used the ancient historiographer in his genealogy of Amyntor).
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