Paraebius

Family: Thynians · Role: friend of Phineus · First appears: Book II 4

Life events

Phineus reveals Paraebius’s inherited curse and prescribes sacrifice to the Thynian nymph.(Book II 4)
- With: Phineus
- “But he was paying the sad penalty of his father’s sin. For he when alone on the mountains, felling trees, once slighted the prayers of a Hamadryad, who wept and sought to soften him with plaintive words, not to cut down the stump of an oak tree coeval with herself, wherein for a long time she had lived continually; but he in the arrogance of youth recklessly cut it down. So to him the nymph thereafter made her death a curse, to him and to his children. I indeed knew of the sin when he came; and I bid him build an altar to the Thynian nymph, and offer on it an atoning sacrifice, with prayer to escape his father’s fate.”

friends with Phineus “And with them came Paraebius, who was dearest to him”
mentor: Phineus “I indeed knew of the sin when he came; and I bid him build an altar to the Thynian nymph, and offer on it an atoning sacrifice, with prayer to escape his father’s fate.”
employer: Phineus “Paraebius only he bade remain there with the chiefs; and straightway he sent him and bade him bring back the choicest of his sheep.”

Extracted from the original text of The Argonautica. Made with Rho MD.