Λιτυέρσης
Lityerses, reaping song
Translated by David Whitehead2 Aug 2006Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
A kind of song. Menander in Chalkedonians [writes]: "singing a Lityerses all the while since breakfast".1 But some [say that it is] a kind of piping. Lityerses was a bastard son of Minos, who lived in Kelainai; he took in passers-by and compelled them to reap with him; then he would cut off their heads and conceal the rest of their bodies in the sheaves. He was killed by Heracles; but in honour of Midas a reaper's song to him was inaugurated.