Editing Aegimius (section)

== Mythology ==
Aegimius asked [[Heracles]] for help in a war against the [[Lapiths]] (who were lead by Coronus who was an argonaut and the son of Caenus) and, in gratitude, offered him one-third of his kingdom. The Lapiths were conquered, but Heracles did not take for himself the territory promised to him by Aegimius, and left it in trust to the king, who was to preserve it for the sons of Heracles, the [[Heracleidae]].<ref>[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+2.7.7&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:boo=0:chapter=0&highlight=Aegimius 2.7.7]; [[Diodorus Siculus]], [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/4B*.html#37.3 4.37.3]–[https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/4B*.html#37.4 4]</ref>

Aegimius had two sons, [[Dymas]] and [[Pamphylus (mythology)|Pamphylus]], who migrated to the [[Peloponnese]] and were regarded as the ancestors of two branches of the Doric race, the ''Dymanes'' and the ''[[Pamphylia]]ns'' of Anatolia, while the third branch, the ''Hylleans'', derived its name from [[Hyllas]], the son of Heracles, who had been adopted by Aegimius.<ref>Apollodorus, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+2.8.3&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:boo=0:chapter=0&highlight=Aegimius 2.8.3]; [[Scholia]] on Pindar, ''Pythian Ode'' 1.121</ref>

There existed in antiquity an [[epic poem]] ''[[Aegimius (poem)|Aegimius]]'' of which a few fragments are extant,<ref>{{Citation  | last = Schmitz  | first = Leonhard  | contribution = Aegimius  | editor-last = Smith  | editor-first = William  | title = [[Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology]]  | volume = 1  | pages = 26  | place = Boston  | year = 1867  | contribution-url = http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0035.html  | access-date = 2007-10-19  | archive-date = 2009-02-11  | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090211114659/http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0035.html  | url-status = dead  }}</ref> and which is sometimes ascribed to [[Hesiod]] and sometimes to [[Cercops|Cercops of Miletus]].<ref>[[Athenaeus]], 11. p. 503; [[Stephanus of Byzantium]], s.v. ''[https://topostext.org/work/241#A3.1 Abantis (Αβαντίς)]'' </ref> The poem, printed among Hesiodic fragments,<ref>[http://mcllibrary.org/Hesiod/frag2.html ''Hesiod: Fragments'', translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, 1914: on-line text].</ref> survives in fewer than a dozen quotations, and seems to have been in part concerned with the myth of [[Io (mythology)|Io]] and [[Argus Panoptes|Argos Panoptes]].