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Methydrium, and Agasias of Stymphalus — and in emulation of these, a third, also an Arcadian, Callimachus from Parrhasia, who said he was ready to go, and would get volunteers from the whole army to join him.
Anabasis 2007
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Readers of the “Anabasis” will recollect the tragic end of another Aeneas, also of Stymphalus, an
Hellenica 2007
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If they be in adversity, they are more suspicious and apt to mistake: they think themselves scorned by reason of their misery: and therefore many generous spirits in such cases withdraw themselves from all company, as that comedian [2302] Terence is said to have done; when he perceived himself to be forsaken and poor, he voluntarily banished himself to Stymphalus, a base town in Arcadia, and there miserably died.
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When those monster birds near grim Stymphalus his arrow
Poems and Fragments 2006
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When those monster birds near grim Stymphalus his arrow
Poems and Fragments 2006
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When those monster birds near grim Stymphalus his arrow 115
The Poems and Fragments of Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus
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On an island in a lake near Stymphalus, in Arcadia, there nested in those days some remarkable and terrible birds -- remarkable because their claws, wings and beaks were brazen, and terrible because they fed on human flesh and attacked with their terrible beaks and claws all who came near the lake.
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Orchomenus, Stymphalus, and Sicyon, to Corinth; but the passes, we learned, were impracticable for the snow, and we must recross Mount
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He was to clear the marshes of Stymphalus of the maneating birds that gathered there; he was to capture and bring to the king the golden-horned deer of Coryneia; he was also to capture and bring alive to Myceaæ the boar of Erymanthus.
The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles Padraic Colum 1926
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He was to clear the marshes of Stymphalus of the man-eating birds that gathered there; he was to capture and bring to the king the golden-horned deer of Coryneia; he was also to capture and bring alive to Mycenæ the boar of Erymanthus.
Part III. The Heroes of the Quest. Chapter IV. The Life and Labors of Heracles. I 1921
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