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, a noble Argive, son of Hippo no us and Astinome, and husband to Evadne. He was so impious, that when he went to the Theban war, he declared that he would take Thebes even in spite of Jupiter. Such contempt provoked the god, who struck him dead with a thunderbolt. His body was burnt separately from the others, and his wife threw herself on the burning pile to mingle her ashes with his. It is said that Æsculapius restored him to life. Ovid , Metamorphoses , bk. 9 , li. 404 .— Statius , Thebiad , bk. 3 , . — Hyginus , fables 68 & 70.— Euripi des , Phœnician Women & Suppliants .— Aeschylus , Seven Against Thebes .