Prevod

1. Bellerophon, son of Glaucus, son of Sisyphus, accidentally killed his brother Deliades—or, as some say, Peiren, and others, Alcimenes—and went to Proetus to be purified. Stheneboea fell in love with him and sent him proposals of love. When he rejected her, she told Proetus that Bellerophon had sent her proposals to seduce her. Proetus believed her and gave him a letter to carry to Iobates, in which he had written instructions to put Bellerophon to death. After reading it, Iobates ordered him to kill the Chimaera, thinking that the beast would destroy him. For it was no easy prey, not merely for one man but even for many: it had the foreparts of a lion, the tail of a serpent, and in the middle a third head, that of a goat, through which it breathed fire. It ravaged the countryside and destroyed the livestock, for its single body possessed the strength of three beasts. This Chimaera is said to have been reared by Amisodarus, as Homer too relates, and to have been born of Typhon and Echidna, as Hesiod records.

2. Bellerophon therefore mounted Pegasus, the winged horse he possessed, born of Medusa and Poseidon, and soared aloft on him, shooting down the Chimaera with his arrows. After this contest, Iobates ordered him to fight the Solymi. When he had accomplished this task as well, he ordered him to fight the Amazons. And when he had killed them too, Iobates chose those Lycians reputed to be the bravest and ordered them to lie in ambush and kill him. But when he had killed every one of these as well, Iobates, marvelling at his prowess, showed him the letter and asked him to remain with him. He gave him his daughter Philonoe in marriage and, when he died, left him the kingdom.