Note 38 — Telephos
Smith Ely Jelliffe translation
I. In the version of Euripides, whose tragedies “Auge” and “Telephos” are extant, Aleos caused the mother and the child to be thrown into the sea in a box, but through the protection of Athene this box was carried to the end of the Mysian River, Kaikos. There it was found by Teuthras. who made Auge his wife and took her child into his house as his foster son.