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[683] The scholia note that here Neleus survives the expedition of Herakles (v. 690), in which, according to the more popular legend, he was killed with eleven of his sons. The raid on Pylos seems to have played a very important part in the Epic poems on the deeds of Herakles. See the note on 5.393.
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