Labda (mythology)
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Template:Short description According to Herodotus, Labda (Ancient Greek: Script error: No such module "Lang".) was a daughter of the Bacchiad Amphion, and mother of Cypselus, by Eetion.[1] Her name was derived from the fact of her feet being turned outward, and thus resembling the letter lambda (Script error: No such module "Lang".),[2] which, by the accounts of the most ancient Greek grammarians, was originally pronounced labda Script error: No such module "IPA"..
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- ↑ Aelius Herodianus, v. 92. (cited in Smith)
- ↑ Etymologicum Magnum p. 199. Compare Cypselus. (cited in Smith)
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References
- "Labda." Leonhard Schmitz. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. William Smith, editor (1870).
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