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CALLIRRHOE , in See also:Greek See also:legend, second daughter of the See also:river-See also:god See also:Achelous and wife of See also:Alcmaeon (q.v.). At her See also:earnest See also:request her See also:husband induced Phegeus, See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of Psophis in See also:Arcadia, and the See also:father of his first wife See also:Arsinoe (or Alphesiboea), to See also:hand over to him the necklace and peplus (robe) of See also:Harmonia (q.v.), that he might dedicate them at See also:Delphi to See also:complete the cure of his madness. When Phegeus discovered that they were really meant for Callirrhoe, he gave orders for Alcmaeon to be waylaid and killed (See also:Apollodorus iii. 7, 2. 5-7; See also:Thucydides ii. ten). Callirrhoe now implored the gods that her two See also:young sons might grow to manhood at once and avenge their father's See also:death. This was granted, and her sons Amphoterus and Acarnan slew Phegeus with his two sons, and returning with the necklace and peplus dedicated them at Delphi (See also:Ovid, Metam. ix. 413).
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