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(ll. 21-27) `on the right.... and he, rushing upon her,.... drawing back slightly towards the left.  And on them was laid an unenviable struggle:  for she, even fair, swift-footed Atalanta, ran scorning the gifts of golden Aphrodite; but with him the race was for his life, either to find his doom, or to escape it.  Therefore with thoughts of guile he said to her: 

(ll. 28-29) `"O daughter of Schoeneus, pitiless in heart, receive these glorious gifts of the goddess, golden Aphrodite...’

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(ll. 30-36) `But he, following lightly on his feet, cast the first apple (13):  and, swiftly as a Harpy, she turned back and snatched it.  Then he cast the second to the ground with his hand.  And now fair, swift-footed Atalanta had two apples and was near the goal; but Hippomenes cast the third apple to the ground, and therewith escaped death and black fate.  And he stood panting and...’

Fragment #15 —­
Strabo (14), i. p. 42: 
`And the daughter of Arabus, whom worthy Hermaon begat with
Thronia, daughter of the lord Belus.’

Fragment #16 —­
Eustathius, Hom. 461. 2: 
`Argos which was waterless Danaus made well-watered.’

Fragment #17 —­
Hecataeus (15) in Scholiast on Euripides, Orestes, 872: 
Aegyptus himself did not go to Argos, but sent his sons, fifty in
number, as Hesiod represented.

Fragment #18 —­ (16)
Strabo, viii. p. 370: 
And Apollodorus says that Hesiod already knew that the whole
people were called both Hellenes and Panhellenes, as when he says
of the daughters of Proetus that the Panhellenes sought them in
marriage.

Apollodorus, ii. 2.1.4:  Acrisius was king of Argos and Proetus of Tiryns.  And Acrisius had by Eurydice the daughter of Lacedemon, Danae; and Proetus by Stheneboea `Lysippe and Iphinoe and Iphianassa’.  And these fell mad, as Hesiod states, because they would not receive the rites of Dionysus.

Probus (17) on Vergil, Eclogue vi. 48:  These (the daughters of Proetus), because they had scorned the divinity of Juno, were overcome with madness, such that they believed they had been turned into cows, and left Argos their own country.  Afterwards they were cured by Melampus, the son of Amythaon.

Suidas, s.v.:  (18) `Because of their hideous wantonness they lost their tender beauty....’

Eustathius, Hom. 1746.7:  `....For he shed upon their heads a fearful itch:  and leprosy covered all their flesh, and their hair dropped from their heads, and their fair scalps were made bare.’