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DIOMEDES, king of Thrace, owned horses which fed on human flesh. As his eighth labor, Hercules killed Diomedes and threw his body to the horses (Met IX.194-196; OM IX.1-872).

Lady Philosophy rehearses the labors of Hercules, Bo 4, Metr 7.28-62. Chaucer adds a gloss that the horses of Diomedes devoured him. [Busirus: Ercules]

Ovid, Met, ed. and trans. F.J. Miller, II: 16-17; OM, ed. C. de Boer, III, deel 30: 1-242.
From CHAUCER NAME DICTIONARY
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