Fr. 24
σκῶλος ἐπεί μιν ἔτυψε ποδὸς θέναρ· αὐτὰρ ὁ πείνῃ
θυμαίνων λάχνην στήθεος εἷλκε σέθεν
δραξάμενος· τὶν δ' ὦνα γέλως ἀνεμίσγετο λύπῃ,
εἰσόκε τοι τρίπολον νειὸν ἀνερχομένῳ
5 ὠμογέρων ἔτι πουλὺς ἀνὴρ ἀβόλησε βοωτέων
Θει]οδάμας· δεκάπ[ο]υν δ' εἶχεν ἄκαιναν ὅγε,
ἀμφότερον κέντρον τε βοῶν καὶ μέτρον ἀρούρης·
. . .]. . . ου ξείνων χαῖρε [. . . . . .]μενων
. . . . .]η μέγ' ἀρητὲ προσ[. . . . . .]ς, αἶψα δ', ἄνωγα,
10 εἴ τι κα]τωμαδίης οὐλάδ[ος ἐστὶ]ν ἔσω
τόσσο]ν ὅσον τ' ἀπὸ πα[ιδὶ κακὴν β]ούπειναν ἐλά[σσαι,
δός μοι]· καὶ φιλίης [μνήσομ' ἀεὶ δό]σιος.’
αὐτὰρ ὅ]γ' ἀγρεῖον κ[αὶ ἀμείλιχον ἐξ]εγέλασσε
].ε . . . . . . .[ ]τε βοῶν
15 ].ε ταῦροι
]ος·
οἵ κεν βρωσείοντες ἐμὸν παρίωσιν ἄροτρον
].ων
Λέπαργε
. . . . .
20 ἔκλυε ‹-›, τῶν μηδὲν ἐμοὺς δι' ὀδόντας ὀλίσθοι,
Πηλεύς
. . . . .
ἀδάμας
Fr. 25
δειλαίοις Ἀσινεῦσιν ἐπὶ τριπτῆρος †ἁπάσας†
notes
Fr. 24 Harder (= 24 Pf., 26 Mass.)
1-22 P. Berol. 11629 B verso [image], Trismegistos 98082
7 Σ AR 3, 1323b
17 Apollon. Lex. 125, 34 sqq.
20-21 Σ BD Pi. N. 5, 25b
Fr. 25 Harder (= 25 Pf., = 27 Mass.) EtGen. AB α 1272
This aition is a doublet of the previous one about Heracles and the Lindian peasant. Now in the area of Trachis, Heracles was in need of food for his son (named Hyllus). Heracles approached the old man Thiodamas, who was plowing, and asked him for some. Thiodamas refused and Heracles killed him. Afterward, Heracles assumed the guardianship of Thiodamas' son (named Hylas). The story is also in Apollonius' Argonautica (1.1211–19), where Hylas is stolen away by water nymphs and Heracles, in distress, leaves the expedition of the Argonauts to search for him.
Bibliography
Barigazzi, Adelmo. 1976. ‘Eracle e Tiodamante in Callimaco e Apollonio Rodio.’ Prometheus 2:227-38.