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25.5
When Demeter was wandering in search of her daughter, she was followed, it is said, by Poseidon, who lusted after her. So she turned, the story runs, into a mare, and grazed with the mares of Oncius; realizing that he was outwitted, Poseidon too changed into a stallion and enjoyed Demeter.
25.6
At first, they say, Demeter was angry at what had happened, but later on she laid aside her wrath and wished to bathe in the Ladon. So the goddess has obtained two surnames, Fury because of her avenging anger, because the Arcadians call being wrathful “being furious,” and Bather (Lusia) because she bathed in the Ladon. The images in the temple are of wood, but their faces, hands and feet are of Parian marble.
25.7
The image of Fury holds what is called the chest, and in her right hand a torch; her height I conjecture to be nine feet. Lusia seemed to be six feet high. Those who think the image to be Themis and not Demeter Lusia are, I would have them know, mistaken in their opinion. Demeter, they say, had by Poseidon a daughter, whose name they are not wont to divulge to the uninitiated, and a horse called Areion. For this reason they say that they were the first Arcadians to call Poseidon Horse.
25.8
They quote verses from the Iliad and from the Thebaid in confirmation of their story. In the Iliad there are verses about Areion himself:Not even if he drive divine Areion behind,The swift horse of Adrastus, who was of the race of the gods.Hom. Il. 23.346In the Thebaid it is said that Adrastus fled from Thebes:Wearing wretched clothes, and with him dark-maned Areion.Thebaid, unknown location.They will have it that the verses obscurely hint that Poseidon was father to Areion, but Antimachus says that Earth was his mother:
25.9
Adrastus, son of Talaus, son of Cretheus,The very first of the Danai to drive his famous horses,Swift Caerus and Areion of Thelpusa,Whom near the grove of Oncean ApolloEarth herself sent up, a marvel for mortals to see.Antimachus, unknown location.
