fragment 1
Scholiast on Apollonius of Rhodes, Arg. i. 128
Hesiod in the Marriage of Keyx says that he (Herakles) landed (from the Argo) to look for water and was left behind in Magnesia near the place called Aphetae (without friends) because of his desertion there.
fragment 2
Zenobius, ii. 19
Hesiod used the proverb in the following way; Herakles is represented as having constantly visited the house of Keyx of Trakhis and spoken thus:
"Of their own selves the good make for the feasts of good."
fragment 3
Scholiast on Homer, Il. xiv. 119
"And horse-driving Keyx beholding ..."
fragment 4
Athenaeus, ii. p. 49b
Hesiod in the Marriage of Keyx—for though grammar-school boys alienate it from the poet, yet I consider the poem ancient—calls the tables tripods.
fragment 5
Gregory of Korinth, On Forms of Speech (Rhett. Gr. vii. 776)
"But when they had done with desire for the equal-shared feast, even then they brought from the forest the mother of a mother (sc. wood), dry and parched, to be slain by her own children" (sc. to be burnt in the flames).