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The 27th Homeric Hymn describes these figures “darting through the air on tawny wings,” in reference to their identification with St. Elmo’s Fire. In his Germania, Tacitus identified these figures with divinites called the Alci who were worshipped by crossdressing priests. Diodorus Siculus claimed that stars appeared over the heads of these figures after the Argonauts prayed during a storm near Samothrace, where children of Hephaestus called the Cabeiri were sometimes conflated with Penates or these figures. (-5[1])These figures received a temple after aiding the Romans at the Battle of Lake Regillus. These figures kidnapped (*) Aethra and (10[1])also carried off the daughters of Leucippus. (-5[1])One of these figures died during a cattle raid undertaken in revenge for losing a cattle-eating competition, causing the other to share his immortality. (10[1])For 10 points, name these horse-taming sons of Leda, who were placed among the stars as Gemini. (10[1])■END■ (0[1])

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