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Peteus (gr. Peteos), a son of Orneus, and father of Menestheus, was expelled from Athens by Aegeus, and is said to have gone to Phocis, where he founded the town of Stiris. (Homer Iliad. ii. 552, iv. 338; Apollod. iii. 10. § 8; Pausanias ii. 25. § 5, x. 35. § 5; Plut. Thes. 32.)
Soldiers came from that well-built fortress Athens,
land of proud Erechtheus, whom Athena raised,
after he was born out of the harvest land.
She placed him at her own rich shrine in Athens.
To him Athenian youth make sacrificial offerings,
with bulls and rams as each year comes around.
Menestheus, son of Peteos, led these men.
Homer Iliad. ii.
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