the myth of the mass-wedding of aegyptus' fifty sons and danaus' fifty daughters came at this point, but little survives of the narrative in the "catalogue". danaus and his daughters fled to argos and introduced the practice of digging wells, "making waterless argos well-watered argos" (). aegyptus' sons followed the danaids to greece in order to compel them to marry, and, as in the predominant version of the myth, hypermestra alone consummated her union with lynceus and bore abas, whose sons were acrisius and proetus. the daughters of proetus offended hera or dionysus or both in some way, and were cursed with leprosy or madness which could only be cured by melampous, a service which abas rewarded by granting the seer and his brother bias shares of argos to rule. acrisius' daughter was danaë. her golden liaison with zeus, the birth of perseus, and mother and son's involuntary exile in the larnax are quickly recounted, and perseus' siring of alcaeus, sthenelus and electryon by andromeda also comes in quick succession.