a mythical robber on the Isthmus of Corinth , who bound travellers to the tops of pine-trees which he had bent to the ground , and then , by letting go his hold , hurled them into the air; he was killed at last by Theseus , Prop. 3 (4), 22, 37; Ov.M. 7, 440; id.H. 2, 70; Stat.Th. 12, 576.