(), that is, "the Stretcher," is a surname of
the famous robber Polypemon or Damastes. He used to force all the strangers that fell into his
hands into a bed which was either too small or too large, and in which he had their limbs
stretched by force until they died. He was slain by Theseus, on the Cephissus in Attica; the
bed of Procrustes is used proverbially even at the present day. (