Crossword-Solution: EPOPEUS 7 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Nestor in a digression tells him how Epopeus was utterly destroyed after seducing the daughter of Lycus, and the story of Oedipus, the madness of Heracles, and the story of Theseus and Ariadne.

Pardon us, gentle deity, for the violence we have done you, and give success to our undertakings.' Dictys, one of my best hands for climbing the mast and coming down by the ropes, and Melanthus, my steersman, and Epopeus the leader of the sailors' cry, one and all exclaimed, 'Spare your prayers for us.' So blind is the lust of gain! When they proceeded to put him on board I resisted them.

Pardon us, gentle deity, for the violence we have done you, and give success to our undertakings.' Dictys, one of my best hands for climbing the mast and coming down by the ropes, and Melanthus, my steersman, and Epopeus, the leader of the sailor's cry, one and all exclaimed, 'Spare your prayers for us.' So blind is the lust of gain! When they proceeded to put him on board I resisted them.

Then _Epopeus_ King of _Ægialus_, afterwards called _Sicyon_, stole _Antiope_ the daughter of _Nycteus_, [132] and _Nycteus_ thereupon made war upon him, and in a battle wherein _Nycteus_ overcame, both were wounded and died soon after.

All these things confirm the ages of _Cadmus_ and _Europa_, and their posterity, above assigned, and place the death of _Epopeus_ or _Epaphus_ King of _Sicyon_, and birth of _Amphion_ and _Zethus_, upon the tenth year of _Solomon_; and the taking of _Thebes_ by _Amphion_ and _Zethus_, and the flight of _Laius_ to _Pelops_, upon the thirtieth year of that King, or thereabout.