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149And since his son said that he would not sail with him, therefore he said that he would leave him behind as a sheep among wolves; and in accordance with that saying this young man got the name of Oiolycos,[131] and it chanced that this name prevailed over his former name: then from Oiolycos was begotten Aigeus, after whom are called the Aigeidai, a powerful clan[132] in Sparta: and the men of this tribe, since their children did not live to grow up, established by the suggestion of an oracle a temple to the Avenging Deities[133] of Laïos and OEdipus, and after this the same thing was continued[134] in Thera by the descendants of these men.
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Notes
[131] From {ois} "sheep" and {lukos} "wolf" ({oin en lukoisi}).
[132] {phule}, the word being here apparently used loosely.
[133] {'Erinuon}.
[134] {meta touto upemeine touto touto}: some Editors mark a lacuna after {upemeine}, or supply some words like {sunebe de}: "after this the children survived, and the same thing happened also in Thera, etc"