Note 7 — Chapter XVIII · CLOSING EVENTS OF LEGENDARY GREECE.—PERIOD OF INTERMEDIATE DARKNESS, BEFORE THE DAWN OF HISTORICAL GREECE.
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Αὐτος γαρ Κρονίων, καλλιστεφάνου πόσις Ἥρας, Ζεὺς Ἡρακλείδαις τήνδε δέδωκε πόλιν· Οἰσιν ἅμα, προλιπόντες Ἐρίνεον ἠνεμόεντα, Εὐρεῖαν Πέλοπος νῆσον ἀφικόμεθα.
In a similar manner Pindar says that Apollo had planted the sons of Hêraklês, jointly with those of Ægimius, at Sparta, Argos, and Pylus (Pyth. v. 93).
Isokratês (Or. vi. Archidamus, p. 120) makes out a good title by a different line of mythical reasoning. There seem to have been also stories containing mythical reasons why the Herakleids did not acquire possession of Arcadia (Polyæn. i. 7).