Admētus

, son of Pheres and Clymene, king of Pheræ in The aly, married The one daughter of Thestor, and, after her death, Alceste daughter of Pelias. Apollo when banished from heaven, is said to have tended his flocks for nine years, and to have obtained from the Parcæ, that Admetus should never die, if another person laid down his life for him; a proof of unbounded affection, which his wife Alceste cheerfully exhibited by devoting herself voluntarily to death. Admetus was one of the Argonauts, and was at the hunt of the Calydonian boar. Pelias promised his daughter in marriage only to him who could bring him a chariot drawn by a lion and a wild boar; and Admetus effected this by the aid of Apollo, and obtained Alceste’s hand. Some say that Hercules brought him back Alceste from hell. Seneca , Medeâ .— Hyginus , fables 50, 51, & 243.— Ovid , Amores , bk. 3 .— Apollo dor us , bk. 1 , chs. 8 & 9, . — Tibullus , bk. 2 , poem 3.— Pausanias , bk. 5 , ch. 17 .――A king of the Molo i, to whom Them is toc les fled for protection. Cornel i us Nepos , Them is toc les , ch. 8 .――An officer of Alexander, killed at the siege of Tyre. Diodorus , bk. 17 .