Daughter of Poseidon and Pitane, the daughter of the river god Eurotas, who was brought up by the Arcadian king Aepytus [1]. She secretly gave birth to Apollo's son Iamus, the ancestor of the prophetic clan of the Iamidae in Olympia, and abandoned him in a bed of violets (Pind. Ol. 6,28-73) [1; 2].
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