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Iphitus, the steadfast son of Eurytus, not yet destined to an evil death; assuredly soon was he himself to be slain by the sword of Clytius.
The Argonautica 2008
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From the Phocians came Iphitus sprung from Naubolus son of Ornytus; once he had been his host when Jason went to Pytho to ask for a response concerning his voyage; for there he welcomed him in his own halls.
The Argonautica 2008
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To him Clytius and Iphitus joined themselves, the warders of Oechalia, sons of Eurytus the ruthless, Eurytus, to whom the Far-shooting god gave his bow; but he had no joy of the gift; for of his own choice he strove even with the giver.
The Argonautica 2008
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Tyro who bore to Poseidon two sons, Pelias and Neleus; the latter of these, king of Pylos, refused Heracles purification for the murder of Iphitus, whereupon Heracles attacked and sacked Pylos, killing amongst the other sons of Neleus Periclymenus, who had the power of changing himself into all manner of shapes.
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Didaeon and Clytius and god-like Toxeus and Iphitus, a scion of
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They added one day in four years to their faulty year; Iphitus celebrated this change by the institution of the Olympiads.
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Iphitus obliged them to change their Greek almanac.
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From this sprung Hercules, from the other Iphitus.
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From this sprung Hercules, from the other Iphitus.
Symposiacs 2004
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They cannot, by any means, be brought to an agreement as to the very age in which he lived; for some of them say that he flourished in the time of Iphitus, and that they two jointly contrived the ordinance for the cessation of arms during the solemnity of the Olympic games.
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003
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