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Talaus

Mortal man

In Greek mythology, Talaus (; Ancient Greek: Ταλαός) was the king of Argos and one of the Argonauts. He was the son of Bias (or Perialces) and Pero, and brother of Arëius and Leodocus.

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A. T. Murray, Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press, 1924 · Homer, Iliad with an English Translation · CC BY-SA 3.0 US

“And with them came a third, Euryalus, a godlike warrior, son of king Mecisteus, son of Talaus; but leader over them all was Diomedes, good at the war-cry. And with these there followed eighty black ships. And they that held Mycenae, the well-built citadel,”
Il. 2.565–569

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And with them came a third, Euryalus, a godlike warrior, son of king Mecisteus, son of Talaus; but leader over them all was Diomedes, good at the war-cry. And with these there followed eighty black ships. And they that held Mycenae, the well-built citadel,
Il. 2.566

Il. 2.566

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