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And Catreus gave
Aerope and Clymene to Nauplius to sell into foreign lands; and of these two Aerope became
the wife of Plisthenes, who begat Agamemnon and Menelaus; and Clymene became the wife of
Nauplius, who became the father of Oeax and Palamedes. But afterwards in the grip of old
age Catreus yearned to transmit the kingdom to his son Althaemenes, and went for that
purpose to Rhodes. And having landed from the ship with the heroes at a desert place of
the island, he was chased by the cowherds, who imagined that they were pirates on a raid.
He told them the truth, but they could not hear him for the barking of the dogs, and while
they pelted him Althaemenes arrived and killed him with the cast of a javelin,
not knowing him to be Catreus. Afterwards when he learned the truth, he prayed and
disappeared in a chasm.
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