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 | | One of the wicked sons of Lycaon was also named Orestheus, which may account for the forced connection which the mythographers have made between the myth of the umble soup and the Deucalionian Flood. |
 | | Amphictyon, the name of another of Deucalion’s sons, is a male form of Amphictyonis, the goddess in whose name the famous northern confederation, the Amphictyonic League, had been founded; according to Strabo, Callimachus, and the Scholiast on Euripides’s Orestes, it was regularized by Acrisius of Argos. |
 | | Civilized Greeks, unlike the dissolute Thracians, abstained from neat wine; and its tempering with water at the conference of the member states, which took place in the vintage season at Antela near Thermopylae, will have been a precaution against murderous disputes. |
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