Salmoneus

, a king of Elis, son of Æolus and Enarette, who married Alcidice, by whom he had Tyro. He wished to be called a god, and to receive divine honours from his subjects; therefore to imitate the thunder, he used to drive his chariot over a brazen bridge, and darted burning torches on every side, as if to imitate the lightning. This impiety provoked Jupiter. Salmoneus was struck with a thunderbolt, and placed in the infernal regions near his brother Sisyphus. Homer , Ody ey , bk. 11 , li. 235 .— Apollo dor us , bk. 1 , ch. 9 .— Hyginus , fable 60.— Diodorus , bk. 4 .— Virgil , Æneid , bk. 6 , li. 585 .