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Lilaia
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Of Lilaia (town),
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LILAIA (or Lilaea) was the Naiad Nymph of the spring, well or fountain of the town of Lilaia in Phokis (central Greece). She was a daughter of the local river Kephisos.
She was probably identified with Liriope, the wife of the River Kephisos by some accounts.
ENCYCLOPEDIA
LILAEA (Lilaia), a Naiad, a daughter of Cephissus, from whom the town of Lilaea in Phocis was believed to have derived its name. (Paus. x. 33. & 2.)
Source: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.
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"Kephisos' sweet stream which pours forth its sweet-flowing water from Lilaia." - Homeric Hymn III To Pythian Apollo 239
"They say that Lilaia was one of the Naiades, as they are called, a daughter of the Kephisos, and that after this Nymphe the city [Liliai, Phokis] was named." - Pausanias, Guide to Greece 10.32.4
Sources:
- The Homeric Hymns - Greek Epic C8th-4th BC
- Pausanias, Guide to Greece - Greek Geography C2nd AD
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