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| | Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, page 312 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) |
 | | When he, and the rest of the children of Heracles, at their father's death, were pursued everywhere by the enmity of Eurysthens, they at last found succour from Theseus, or his son Demophon. |
 | | When Eurystheus drew near with his army to compel the Athenians to give them up, Macaria, daughter of Heracles, freely offered herself up as a sacrifice for her brethren, who, aided by the Athenians, defeated the enemy, Eurystheus being slain as a fugitive by Hyllus himself. |
 | | Having withdrawn from Attica to Thessaly, Hyllus was adopted by the Dorian prince Jigimius, whom Heracles had once assisted in the war between the Lapithae and the Dryopes, under promise of his abdication of the royal power, together with a third part of the kingdom. |
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