Lityerses

(Λιτυέρσης). A son of Midas, said to have lived at Celaenae in Phrygia and to have forced all strangers who passed his fields to work at his harvest. If they failed to surpass him, he cut off their heads and hid their bodies in the sheaves, over which a reaping-song was sung. Heracles overcame him and killed him. His memory was preserved in a harvest-song called Lityerses (Suidas, s. v.; Schol. ad Theocr. x. 41).