Clite

A daughter of king Merops, and wife of Cyzicus. After the murder of her husband by the Argonauts she hanged herself, and the tears of the nymphs, who lamented her death, were changed into the well of the name of Clite.

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References

Sources

  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.
  • Virgil. Aeneid i, 967, 1063 ff.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.