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[8] They quote verses from the Iliad and from the Thebaid in confirmation of their story. In the Iliad there are verses about Areion himself:“Not even if he drive divine Areion behind,
The swift horse of Adrastus, who was of the race of the gods.
”Hom. Il. 23.346In the Thebaid it is said that Adrastus fled from Thebes:“>Wearing wretched clothes, and with him dark-maned Areion.
”Thebaid, unknown location.They will have it that the verses obscurely hint that Poseidon was father to Areion, but Antimachus says that Earth was his mother:

Pausanias. Pausanias Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918.

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