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| | Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 1169 (v. 2) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | NESTOR (NeVrwp), a son of Neleus and Chloris of Pylos in Triphylia, and husband of Eurydice (or, according to others, of Anaxibia, the daughter of Cratieus), by whom he became the father of Peisidice, Polycaste, Perseus, Stratius, Aretus, Echephron, Peisistratus, Antilochus, and Thrasymedes. |
 | | Nestor, on the other hand, is said to have introduced the custom of swearing by Heracles. |
 | | The town of Pylos in Messenia claimed to be the city of Nestor ; and, when Pausanias visited it, the people showed to him the house in which Nestor was believed to have lived. |
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