The eighth labour, on our one wired page. Diomedes the Thracian, son of Ares and king of the warlike Bistones, "owned man-eating mares"; Hercules overpowers the grooms and drives the animals to the sea [The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK II, ch. V]. The mares state their nature on a beloved: left with the boy Abderus, "the mares killed him by dragging him after them", and Hercules founds the city of Abdera beside the grave [ibid.]. Frazer's margin sharpens the symmetry from Diodorus — Hercules killed the owner "by exposing him to his own mares" — and adds a ritual echo: the funeral games held for Abderus admitted every contest "with the exception of horse-racing", no doubt, the note says, because horses had killed him [ibid., editor's note]. The ending is the quietest and best part: "But Eurystheus let them go, and they came to Mount Olympus", where wild beasts destroyed them — the man-eaters finally eaten, the labour's prize simply turned loose [ibid.]. Thompson wired no other authority here; the address is otherwise bare, and this page carries it whole.