199:(some add Poseidon), who, to express gratitude for his hospitality, promised him to fulfill a wish of his; he said that he wanted children. The gods filled a sacrificial bull's hide with their urine, then told Hyrieus to bury it. Nine months later, Hyrieus found a newborn baby boy inside and named him Orion; Roman authors thought of the Latin word
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556:Description of Greece
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649:Children of Poseidon
587:Publius Ovidius Naso
574:Graeciae Descriptio.
515:Gaius Julius Hyginus
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542:Dionysiaca. 3 Vols.
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174:to build a
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241:, 9.2.12
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176:treasure
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162:Treasury
147:Macareus
143:Crinacus
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361:Scholia
334:Spartoi
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251:Hyginus
132:Nycteus
121:Aethusa
109:Alcyone
77:Boeotia
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221:Apollo
197:Hermes
151:Lesbos
128:Clonia
103:Family
97:Nonnus
87:or on
85:Thrace
69:eponym
65:Ὑριεύς
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370:Iliad
365:Homer
322:3.5.5
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187:Orion
136:Lycus
125:nymph
89:Chios
81:Orion
73:Hyria
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