Pindus (mythology)

Pindus (mythology)

"for other uses,see Pindus (disambiguation)"

Pindus in Greek mythology was the son of Makednos. He was friends with a snake and when his three brothers killed Pindus, the snake took revenge by killing them.

References

* [http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/L/Roman/Texts/Aelian/de_Natura_Animalium/10*.html De Natura Animalium Liber X,48] -Claudius Aelianus
*Chiliades 4.338 (333,scholium)


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