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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