“And she conceived and bore to Zeus, who delights in the thunderbolt, two sons, Magnes and Macedon, rejoicing in horses, who dwell round about Pieria and Olympus.”

— Hesiod

Catalogues of Women and Eoiae 3 (Loeb, H.G. Evelyn-White).
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