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Ialĕmus

Ἰάλεμος). The personification of a sort of dirge, as was Linus (q.v.), and as Hymenaeus personified the marriage song. He is called a son of Apollo and Calliopé, and was the inventor of a melancholy song which bore the name of ἰάλεμος.

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