Phineus — Minor Figures

23 figures from The Metamorphoses of Ovid who appear only briefly. Each keeps their own page; this one gathers them so they can be read together.

Abaris

combatant · first appears Fable 48

• Fable 48 · enemies with Perseus “Then he slays Polydæmon, sprung from the blood of Semiramis, and the Caucasian Abaris”

Erithus

combatant · first appears Fable 48

• Fable 48 · parent: Actor “But Perseus does not attack Erithus, the son of Actor, whose weapon is a broad battle-axe,”
• Fable 48 · enemies with Perseus “Perseus does not attack Erithus, the son of Actor, whose weapon is a broad battle-axe, by using his sword, but he takes up, with both hands, a huge bowl”

Eryx

combatant · first appears Fable 48

• Fable 48 · enemies with Perseus “He was about to rush on, when the earth arrested his steps, and he remained an immovable stone, and an armed statue.”
• Fable 50 · parent: Venus “Venus is so called from Eryx, the mountain of Sicily, on which her son Eryx, one of the early Sicilian kings, erected a magnificent temple in her honor.”

Ethemon

combatant · first appears Fable 48

• Fable 48 · enemies with Perseus “Perseus stabs him with his Cyllenian[20] falchion, trembling, and vainly extending his unarmed hands.”

Molpeus

combatant · first appears Fable 48

• Fable 48 · enemies with Perseus “so Perseus, being in doubt whether to bear onward to the right or to the left, repulses Molpeus by a wound in the leg, which he runs through, and is contented with his flight.”

Nileus

combatant · first appears Fable 48

• Fable 48 · enemies with Perseus “Behold, Perseus, the origin of my race; thou shalt carry to the silent shades a great consolation for thy death”

Polydæmon

combatant · first appears Fable 48

• Fable 48 · parent: Semiramis “Then he slays Polydæmon, sprung from the blood of Semiramis,”
• Fable 48 · enemies with Perseus “Then he slays Polydæmon, sprung from the blood of Semiramis”

Thescelus

combatant · first appears Fable 48

• Fable 48 · enemies with Perseus “‘{Go}, seek some one else,’ said Thescelus, ‘for thy miracles to affect;’ and, as he was preparing to hurl his deadly javelin with his hand, he stood fast in that posture, a statue of marble.”

Broteas

combatant · first appears Fable 48

• Fable 48 · enemies with Phineus “Upon this, two brothers, Broteas and Ammon invincible at boxing, if swords could only be conquered by boxing, fell by the hand of Phineus;”