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| | Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 989 (v. 3) (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | A dragon sent by the gods prevented this crime ; and as she confessed her intention to Telephus, he resolved to kill her ; but as she invoked the aid of Heracles, the relation between them was discovered, and Telephus led his mother back to his own country. |
 | | According to the common tradition, however, Telephus was king of Mysia at the time when the Greeks went to the Trojan war, and when they invaded Mysia, he repelled them, being of all the sons of Heracles the most like his father. |
 | | Telephus, therefore, in a deplorable condition, went to seek Agamemnon; and on the advice of Clytaemnestra he carried off Orestes from his cradle, threatening to kill him unless his father would assist him in getting his wound cured. |
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