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Mile'tus

*Mi/lhtos), a son of Apollo and Areia of Crete. Being beloved by Minos and Sarpedon, he attached himself to the latter, and fled from Minos to Caria, where he built a town, which he called after his own name (Apollod. 3.1.2 ; Paus. 7.2.3; Schol. ad Apolon. Rhod. 1.186). Ovid (Ov. Met. 9.442) calls him a son of Apollo and Deione, and hence Deionides. A different genealogy and story about him is preserved in Antonius Liberalis (30).

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    • Pseudo-Apollodorus, Library, 3.1.2
    • Pausanias, Description of Greece, 7.2.3
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 9.442
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