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And it chanced that a calamity also befell the army at
Naupactus. For there appeared to them a
soothsayer reciting oracles in a fine frenzy, whom they took for a magician sent by the
Peloponnesians to be the ruin of the army. So Hippotes, son of Phylas, son of Antiochus,
son of Hercules, threw a javelin at him, and hit and killed him.1
In consequence of that, the naval force perished with the destruction of the fleet, and
the land force suffered from famine, and the army disbanded. When Temenus inquired of the
oracle concerning this calamity, the god said that these things were done by the
soothsayer2 and he ordered him to banish the slayer for ten years and to take for his
guide the Three-Eyed One. So they banished Hippotes, and sought for the Three-Eyed
One.3 And they chanced to light on Oxylus, son of Andraemon, a man sitting on a one-eyed horse
（ its other eye having been knocked out with an arrow）; for he had fled
to Elis on account of a murder, and was now
returning from there to Aetolia after the lapse
of a year.4 So guessing the purport
of the oracle, they made him their guide. And having engaged the enemy they got the better
of him both by land and sea, and slew Tisamenus, son of Orestes.5 Their allies, Pamphylus and Dymas, the
sons of Aegimius, also fell in the fight.
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1 The soothsayer was Carnus, an Acarnanian; the Dorians continued to propitiate the soul of the murdered seer after his death. See Paus. 3.13.4; Conon 26; Scholiast on Theocritus v.83.
2 That is, by the angry spirit of the murdered man.
3 With this and what follows compare Paus. 5.3.5ff.; Suidas, s.v. Τριόφθαλμος; and as to Oxylus, compare Strab. 8.3.33. Pausanias calls Oxylus the son of Haemon.
4 The homicide is said to have been accidental; according to one account, the victim was the homicide's brother. See Paus. 5.3.7. As to the banishment of a murderer for a year, see note on Apollod. 2.5.11.
5 Pausanias gives a different account of the death of Tisamenus. He says that, being expelled from Lacedaemon and Argos by the returning Heraclids, king Tisamenus led an army to Achaia and there fell in a battle with the Ionians, who then inhabited that district of Greece. See Paus. 2.18.8, Paus. 7.1.7ff.
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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