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Telamon led out to hunt Phocus, the beloved
son of Aeacus by his wife Psamathê. When a boar
appeared, Telamon threw his spear at his hated
brother and killed him. But his father drove him
into exile.1 So Dorotheus in the first book of his
Metamorphoses.
Gaius Maximus had two sons, Similius and Rhesus,
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of whom this Rhesus, whom he begat from Ameria
out of wedlock, killed his brother during a hunt; and
when he returned home, he declared that the mischance was accidental, not deliberate. But his
father recognized the truth and banished him. So
Aristocles in the third book of his Italian History.
1 Cf. Frazer on Apollodorus, iii. 12. 6 (L.C.L. vol. ii. p. 57).
Plutarch. Moralia. with an English Translation by. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1936. 4.
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