Both are represented as born in Egypt, and exposed in their infancy upon the Nile. […] He fell upon the island of Lemnos, and was crippled by his fall. […] Being exposed upon a mountain immediately after his birth, he was nourished by a goat. […] He killed or drove away the Stymphalides, birds which fed upon human flesh. […] He was represented with a cock’s crest upon his head.