Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

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Ino

（Ἰνώ). The daughter of Cadmus, and wife of Athamas (q.v.). Being followed by the latter after he had been seized with madness, she fled to the cliff Moluris, between Megara and Corinth, and there threw herself into the sea with her infant son Melicertes. At the isthmus, however, mother and child were carried ashore by a dolphin, and, from that time forward, were honoured as marine divinities along the shores of the Mediterranean, especially on the coast of Megara and at the Isthmus of Corinth. Ino was worshipped as Leucothea, and Melicertes as Palaemon. They were regarded as divinities who aided men in peril on the sea. As early as Homer, we have Ino mentioned as rescuing Odysseus from danger by throwing him her veil ( Od. v. 333-353). Among the Romans Ino was identified with Matuta (q.v.).