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Endymion had by a Naiad nymph or, as some say, by Iphianassa, a son Aetolus, who slew
Apis, son of Phoroneus, and fled to the Curetian country. There he killed his hosts, Dorus
and Laodocus and Polypoetes, the sons of Phthia and Apollo, and called the country Aetolia after himself.1
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1 Compare Paus. 5.1.8; Conon 14.
Apollodorus. Apollodorus, The Library, with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. Includes Frazer's notes.
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