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From Mysia they departed to the land of the
Bebryces, which was ruled by King Amycus, son of Poseidon and a Bithynian nymph.1 Being a doughty
man he compelled the strangers that landed to box and in that way made an end of them. So
going to the Argo as usual, he challenged the
best man of the crew to a boxing match. Pollux undertook to box against him and killed him
with a blow on the elbow. When the Bebryces made a rush at him, the chiefs snatched up
their arms and put them to flight with great slaughter.
1 As to the visit of the Argonauts to the Bebryces, and the boxing match of Pollux with Amycus, see Ap. Rhod., Argon. ii.1ff.; Theocritus xxii.27ff.; Orphica, Argonautica 661ff.; Valerius Flaccus, Argon. iv.99ff.; Hyginus, Fab. 17; Lactantius Placidus on Statius, Theb. iii.353; Scriptores rerum mythicarum Latini, ed. Bode, i. pp. 31, 123 (First Vatican Mythographer 93; Second Vatican Mythographer 140). The name of the Bithynian nymph, mother of Amycus, was Melie （Ap. Rhod., Argon. ii.4; Hyginus, Fab. 17; Serv. Verg. A. 5.373）.
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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