Eurytus

For not even to Eurytus, the poet says, did it profit that he strove against his betters.

Eurytus was killed by the man entertained at his house—"wretch, who reverenced neither the regard of the gods nor the table which he set before him;

Indeed, since the Scripture says, "Let us make man after our image and likeness," I think it worth while to set down also the saying of Eurytus the Pythagorean, which runs thus.

and then near them the lords of Elis, whom all the people named Epeians;

When Eurytus learned of the Persians circuit, he demanded his armor and put it on, bidding his helot to lead him to the fighting.

Now if Aristodemus alone had been sick and returned to Sparta, or if they had both made the trip, I think the Spartans would not have been angry with them.

for once before those arrogant Moliones had destroyed his Tirynthian army, when it was encamped in the valley of Elis,

The laws of Zeus urge me to sing of that extraordinary contest-place which Heracles founded by the ancient tomb of Pelops with its six altars, after he killed Cteatus, the flawless son of Poseidon and Eurytus too, with a will to exact from the unwilling Augeas, strong and violent, the wages for his menial labor.