. nd Heraclesafter taking Phyleus, the son of Augeas, as hiswitness, led the rivers Alpheus and Peneusthrough the stalls, which were thus cleansed in! a single day. But Augeas, when he learned thatHeracles had undertaken the work by the com-mand of Eurystheus. refused to give him theI reward. His son Phyleus then bore witness| against his father, who exiled him from Elis. Eurystheus, however, declared the exploit null| and void, because Heracles had stipulated withj Augeas for a reward for performing it. ( 88; Apollod. ii.
. nd Heraclesafter taking Phyleus, the son of Augeas, as hiswitness, led the rivers Alpheus and Peneusthrough the stalls, which were thus cleansed in! a single day. But Augeas, when he learned thatHeracles had undertaken the work by the com-mand of Eurystheus. refused to give him theI reward. His son Phyleus then bore witness| against his father, who exiled him from Elis. Eurystheus, however, declared the exploit null| and void, because Heracles had stipulated withj Augeas for a reward for performing it. ( 88; Apollod. ii. 5, 5 : Athen. p. 412 ; 1, 7.) At a later time Heracles invaded Elis,i and killed Augeay; and his sons. After this heis said to have founded the Olympic games(Pind. 01. xi. 27; Apollod. ii. 7, 2).—6. De-struction of the Sty?nphalian birds. Thesebirds had been brought up by Ares. Theyhad brazen claws, wings, and beaks, usedtheir feathers as arrows, and ate human dwelt on a lake near Stymphalus inArcadia, from which Heracles was ordered by. VI. Heracles and the Stymphallan Birds. (From a gemat Florence.) Eurystheus to expel them. When Heraclesundertook the task, Athene provided him witha brazen rattle, by the noise of which hestartled the birds; and, as they attempted tofly away, he killed some of them with hisarrows. Others he only drove away ; and theyappeared again in the island of Aretias, wherethey were found by the Argonauts. (Paus. , 4 ; Apollod. ii. 5, 6; Ap. Rh. ii. 1037.)— of the Cretan bull. According tosome this was the bull which had carriedEuropa across the sea. According to others,the bull had been sent out of the sea byPoseidon, that Minos might offer it in Minos was so charmed with the beauty ofthe animal, that he kept it, and sacrificedanother in its stead. Poseidon punishedMinos, by driving the bull mad, and causing itto commit great havoc in the island. Heracleswas ordered by Eurystheus to catch the bull,and
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