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So Bellerophon mounted his winged steed
Pegasus, offspring of Medusa and Poseidon, and soaring on high shot down the Chimera from
the height.1 After that contest Iobates ordered him to fight
the Solymi, and when he had finished that task also, he commanded him to combat the
Amazons. And when he had killed them also, he picked out the reputed bravest of the
Lycians and bade them lay an ambush and slay him. But when Bellerophon had killed them
also to a man, Iobates, in admiration of his prowess, showed him the letter and begged him
to stay with him; moreover he gave him his daughter Philonoe,2 and dying
bequeathed to him the kingdom.
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1 For the combat of Bellerophon with the Chimera, see Hom. Il. 6.179ff.; Hes. Th. 319ff.; Pind. O. 13.84(120)ff. ; Hyginus, Fab. 57.
2 Anticlia, according to the Scholiast on Pind. O. 9.59(82); Cassandra, according to the Scholiast on Hom. Il. vi.155.
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