Eumēlus

, a son of Admetus king of Pheræ in The aly. He went to the Trojan war, and had the fleetest horses in the Grecian army. He distinguished himself in the games made in honour of Patroclus. Homer . Iliad , bks. 2 & 23.――A man whose daughter was changed into a bird. Ovid , Metamorphoses , bk. 7 , li. 390 .――A man contemporary with Trip tole mus, of whom he learned the art of agriculture. Pausanias , bk. 7 , ch. 18 .――One of the followers of Æneas, who first informed his friend that his fleet had been set on fire by the Trojan women. Virgil , Æneid , bk. 5 , li. 665 .――One of the Bacchiadæ, who wrote, among other things, a poetical history of Corinth, B.C. 750, of which a small fragment is still extant. Pausanias , bk. 2 , ch. 1 .――A king of the Cimmerian Bosphorus, who died B.C. 304.