Aellopus

A surname of Iris, the messenger of the gods, by which she is described as swift-footed like a storm-wind. Homer uses the form Aellopos (ἀελλόπος).

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References

Sources

  • Iliad, 409.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.