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Evenus begat Marpessa, who was wooed by Apollo, but Idas, son of Aphareus, carried her
off in a winged chariot which he received from Poseidon.1 Pursuing him in a chariot, Evenus came to the river Lycormas, but
when he could not catch him he slaughtered his horses and threw himself into the river,
and the river is called Evenus after him.
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1 As to Evenus and Marpessa, see Scholiast on Hom. Il. ix.557; Eustathius on Hom. Il. ix.557 p. 776; Plut. Lives. 40; Hyginus, Fab. 242 （who calls Evenus a son of Herakles）. According to the first two of these writers, Evenus, like Oenomaus, used to set his daughter's suitors to run a chariot race with him, promising to bestow her on the winner; but he cut off the heads of his vanquished competitors and nailed them to the walls of his house. This seems to be the version of the story which Apollodorus had before him, though he has abridged it.
Apollodorus. Apollodorus, The Library, with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. Includes Frazer's notes.
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