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 | | Telephos, the son of Herakles and Auge, became King of Mysia, and when the Greeks landed there in their first attempt to reach Troy, he fought against them. |
 | | He had, however, incurred the wrath of Dionysos through neglect of his worship, and, in his fight against the Greeks, caught his foot in a vine which sprang forth unexpectedly from the ground, tripped, and was wounded in the thigh by the spear of Achilles. |
 | | The wound would not heal, and, in response to an oracle of Apollo which revealed that the wound could be cured only by the weapon which inflicted it, Telephos went to Greece, where he found the Greeks assembling at Argos for a second attempt on Troy. |
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