Zethes

, Zetes , or Zetus , a son of Boreas king of Thrace and Orithyia, who accompanied, with his brother Cailas, the Argonauts to Colchis. In Bithynia, the two brothers, who are represented with wings, delivered Phineus from the continual persecution of the Harpies, and drove these monsters as far as the islands called Strop hades, where at last they were stopped by Iris, who promised them that Phineus should no longer be tormented by them. They were both killed, as some say, by Hercules during the Argonautic expedition, and were changed into those winds which generally blow eight or ten days before the dog-star appears, and are called Prodromi by the Greeks. Their sister Cleopatra married Phineus king of Bithynia. Orpheus , Argonautic a .— Apollo dor us , bk. 1 , ch. 9 ; bk. 3 , ch. 15 .— Hyginus , fable 14.— Ovid , Metamorphoses , bk. 8 , li. 716 .— Pausanias , bk. 3 , ch. 18 .— Valerius Flaccus.