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Chi'one

Χιόνη).

1. A daughter of Boreas and Oreithyia, and sister of Cleopatra, Zetes, and Calais. She became by Poseidon the mother of Eumolpus, and in order to conceal the event, she threw the boy into the sea; but the child was saved by Poseidon. (Apollod. 3.15. §§ 2, 4 ; Paus. 1.38.3.)

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    • Pseudo-Apollodorus, Library, 3.15
    • Pausanias, Description of Greece, 1.38.3
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