Scholia in Lycophrona in Alexandra, 1393a, 1396b (pp. 251.13-17, 252.1-2, 8-9 [Leone]

     A certain man named Erysichthon, son of Triopas, hewed down the sacred grove of Demeter. She was wroth and cause an extraordinary hunger to rise up in him, such that he could never rest from starvation. This man had a daughter, Mestre, a sorceress, and she would transform herself into the likeness of every animal; the father used her as a remedy for his hunger. That is, he sold her every day and lived from this sales; but she would then escape the transformation and return to her father. Erysichthon is also called Aethon (Αἴθων, "the blazing one"), as Hesiod says, on account of his hunger.

     — translation RTMacfarlane


     


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Ἐρυσίχθων τις υἱὸς Τριόπα ἐξέτεμε τὸ ἅλσος τῆς Δήμητρος· ἤ δὲ ὀργισθεῖσα ἐποίησεν αὐτῷ ἐκφυῆναι λιμὸν μέγαν, ὥστε μηδέποτε λήγειν τῆς πείνας. εἶχε δὲ οὗτος θυγατέρα Μήστραν φαρμακίδα, ἥτις εἰς πᾶν εἶδος ζῴου μετεβάλλετο, καὶ ταύτην εἶχε μέθοδον τῆς λιμο­ῦ ὁ πατήρ· ἐπίπρασκε γὰρ αὐτὴν καθ᾿ ἑκάστην ἑμέραν καὶ ἐκ τούτων ἐτρέφετο· ἣ δὲ πάλιν ἀμείβουα τὸ εἷδος φεύγοθσα πρὸς τὸν πατέρα ἤρχετο. / ὁ δὲ Ἐρυσίχθων Αἴθων ἐκαλεῖτο, ὥς φησιν Ἡσίοδος, διὰ τὸν λιμόν.