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, a famous huntsman, son of Aristæus and Autonoe daughter of Cadmus, whence he is called Autonoeius heros . He saw Diana and her attendant, bathing near Gargaphia, for which he was changed into a stag, and devoured by his own dogs. Pausanias , bk. 9 , ch. 2 .— Ovid , Metamorphoses , bk. 3 , fable 3.――A beautiful youth, son of Meli us of Corinth, whom Archias, one of the Heraclidæ, endeavoured to debauch and carry away. He was killed in the struggle which in consequence of this happened between his father and ravisher. Meli us complained of the insult, and drowned himself; and soon after, the country being visited by a pestilence, Archias was expelled. Plutarch , Amatoriæ narrationes .