Εἰς Κυνόσαργες

[This phrase] is said in reference to violence and cursing. There is a place in Attica, in which they used to put illegitimate children. It is so named from a dog [which was] argos, which means white or swift.¹ For [it is said that] when [some people] were sacrificing to Heracles a white or swift dog, an eagle snatching the thigh-pieces of the sacrificed animal set them down there,² and asking the gods they received the oracular message, to found a shrine to Heracles in the place. Since then the bastards also live there, because Heracles also, [despite] being a bastard, was honored equally to the gods.