Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), N, Numasios Inscription, Nyctimĕné

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Nyctimĕné

Daughter of Epopeus, king of Lesbos. Having been dishonoured by her father, she concealed herself in the shade of forests, where she was metamorphosed by Athené into an owl (Ovid, Met. ii. 590; Hyg. Fab. 204).

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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