Dius

Role: challenger · First appears: Book 5 · Chapter 4

Book 5 · Chapter 4

• rivals with Oxylus “And when Oxylus hastened to take the kingdom of Elis without contention Dius would not permit him, but challenged him not to a contention with all their forces, but to a single combat between two soldiers one from each side.”
• with Oxylus (Oxylus bestowed honours on Dius.) “And to Dius he gave various honours, and observed the rights of all the heroes according to old precedents”

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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.