Fragment #1—Contest of Homer and Hesiod: Next (Homer composed) the
_Epigoni_ in seven thousand verses, beginning, ‘And now, Muses, let us
begin to sing of younger men.’
Fragment #2—Photius, Lexicon: Teumesia. Those who have written on
Theban affairs have given a full account of the Teumesian fox. 2901
They relate that the creature was sent by the gods to punish the
descendants of Cadmus, and that the Thebans therefore excluded those of
the house of Cadmus from kingship. But (they say) a certain Cephalus,
the son of Deion, an Athenian, who owned a hound which no beast ever
escaped, had accidentally killed his wife Procris, and being purified
of the homicide by the Cadmeans, hunted the fox with his hound, and
when they had overtaken it both hound and fox were turned into stones
near Teumessus. These writers have taken the story from the Epic Cycle.
Fragment #3—Scholiast on Apollonius Rhodius, Arg. i. 308: The authors
of the _Thebais_ say that Manto the daughter of Teiresias was sent to
Delphi by the Epigoni as a first fruit of their spoil, and that in
accordance with an oracle of Apollo she went out and met Rhacius, the
son of Lebes, a Mycenaean by race. This man she married—for the oracle
also contained the command that she should marry whomsoever she might
meet—and coming to Colophon, was there much cast down and wept over the
destruction of her country.