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Alcyo'nides

*)Alkuoni/des), the daughters of the giant Alcyoneus (2). After their father's death, they threw themselves into the sea, and were changed into ice-birds. Their names are Phthonia, Anthe, Methone, Alcippe, Pallene, Drimo, and Asteria. (Eustath. ad Hom. p. 776 ;

Suidas, s. v. Ἀλκυονίδες.) [L.S]

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