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and she
had by him a son Polypoetes. And having married Callidice, he reigned over the
Thesprotians, and defeated in battle the neighboring peoples who attacked him. But when
Callidice died he handed over the kingdom to his son and repaired to Ithaca, and there he found Poliporthes, whom Penelope had
borne to him.1
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1 Compare Paus. 8.12.6, from whom we learn that the birth of this son Poliporthes or Ptoliporthes, as Pausanias calls him, was mentioned in the epic poem Thesprotis.
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