Bias

, son of A myth a on and Idomene, was king of Argos, and brother to the famous soothsayer Melampus. He fell in love with Perone, daughter of Neleus king of Pylos; but the father refused to give his daughter in marriage before he received the oxen of Iphiclus. Melampus, at his brother’s request, went to seize the oxen, and was caught in the act. He, however, in one year after received his liberty from Iphiclus who presented him with his oxen as a reward for his great services. Bias received the oxen from his brother, and obliged Neleus to give him his daughter in marriage. Homer , Ody ey , bk. 11 .— Pausanias , bk. 2 , chs. 6 & 18; bk. 4 , ch. 34 .— Apollo dor us , bk. 1 , ch. 9 .――A Grecian prince, who went to the Trojan war. Homer , Iliad , bk. 4 , lis. 13 & 20.――A river of Peloponnesus. Pausanias , bk. 4 , ch. 34 .――One of the seven wise men of Greece, son of Teutamidas, born at Priene, which he long saved from ruin. He flourished B.C. 566, and died in the arms of his grandson, who begged a favour of him for one of his friends. Diogenes Laërtius , bk. 1 .— Plutarch , Convivium Septem Sapientium .— Valerius Maximus , bk. 7 , ch. 2 .— Pausanias , bk. 10 , ch. 24 .