Mares of Diomedes
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Steeds Of Thracian Diomedes · horses of Diomedes
in the texts
Heracles
The flesh-eating horses of King Diomedes, tamed by Heracles as one of his labors.
Next he mounted on a chariot and tamed with the bit the horses of Diomedes, that greedily champed their bloody food at gory mangers with unbridled jaws, devouring with hideous joy the flesh of men;
De Rerum Natura
The fire-breathing man-eating mares owned by Diomedes of Thrace, captured by Hercules.
Of Thracian Diomedes breathing fire
So dreadfully offend us, or the Steeds
Bistonian and Ismarian? And the Snake,