sentences:  6, sect.8) recounts that in the defeat of the Argives, the same battle in which Eteocles and Polynices slew each other, Adrastus alone among the Argive leaders survived, saved by his horse Arion that Demeter, in the likeness of a Fury, had conceived by Poseidon.The scholiasts of the "Iliad" (XXIII, 347) and of Lycophron (153) attribute to him the same origin.