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English: Pompeii frescoes of Hercules and Telephus by Henri Roux Ainé 1870. Translated relevant text: The mythographers relate that Hercules, on returning from fighting the Spartans, stopped to see Aleus, king of Arcadia: there, forgetting the laws of hospitality, he seduced Auge, daughter of this monarch, and left her pregnant. Aleus, informed of the situation of his daughter, instructed one of his trustees, named Nauplius, to lead her out of his kingdom, and there to put her to death. On the way, Auge, surprised by the pains of childbirth, escaped for a moment from her escort, and gave birth to a son, whom she left hidden in the groves of Mount Parthenius. A doe appeared, who suckled the child, and soon the shepherds of King Corytus, amazed and touched by this prodigy, carried the infant and the nurse to their monarch; Corytus took in the child, and in remembrance of the animal which had nursed him, he named him Telephus, a name which the ancients regarded as formed from the Greek word for stag. The life of Telephus was, like his birth, adventurous and full of misfortunes. Poor, exiled, pauper and expelled, his various fortunes became the favorite subject of poets and tragic authors, and marble and canvas often consecrated his image.