Lemnian women
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race of the Lemnian women · the Lemnian women
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Olympian
The women of Lemnos whose contempt the son of Clymenus overcame through his athletic perseverance at the funeral games.
Perseverance is what puts men to the test, and what saved the son of Clymenus from the contempt of the Lemnian women.
Pythian
The women of Lemnos who had killed their husbands, with whom the Argonauts stayed and from whom Euphemus's line descends.
And they reached the expanses of Ocean, and the Red Sea, and the race of the Lemnian women, who killed their husbands.