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Menoetes
Menoetes was the herdsman of Hades.
As part of his tenth labour, Heracles was ordered to fetch the Cattle of Geryon. Geryon lived in the island of Erythia, and had the body of three men grown together and joined at the waist. To get the cattle, Heracles killed Orthus, Geryon's two-headed hound, and Geryon's herdsman Eurytion. Menoetes, who was there pasturing the cattle of Hades, told Geryon what Heracles was doing, and Geryon attacked him, but Heracles killed him too.
When Heracles journeyed to the underworld to fetch Cerberus, he wished to provide the thirsty souls with blood just as Odysseus had done. And for that purpose he dared to slaughter one beast of the cattle of Hades. Menoetes tried to stop him, but Heracles defeated him, braking two of his ribs.