<TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xmlns:py="http://codespeak.net/lxml/objectify/pytype" py:pytype="TREE"><text xml:lang="eng"><body><div type="translation" xml:lang="eng" n="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0007.tlg085.perseus-eng3"><div type="textpart" subtype="section" n="29"><p rend="indent">Aristonymus of Ephesus, the son of Demostratus, hated women and used to consort with an ass; and in due time the ass gave birth to a very beautiful maiden, Onoscelis<note resp="editor" place="unspecified" anchored="true"><q>The girl with ass’s legs</q>: <foreign xml:lang="lat">cf.</foreign> the scholium on Aristophanes, <title xml:lang="lat" rend="italic">Ecclesiazusae</title>, 1048; Stobaeus, <title xml:lang="lat" rend="italic">Florilegium</title>, lxiv. 37 (iv. p. 473 Hense).</note> by name. So Aristocles in the second book of his <title rend="italic">Strange Events</title>. </p><p rend="indent">Fulvius Stellus hated women and used to consort with a mare and in due time the mare gave birth to a beautiful girl and they named her Epona. She is the goddess that is concerned with the protection of horses. So Agesilaüs in the third book of his <title rend="italic">Italian History</title>. </p></div></div></body></text></TEI>