Labda

A daughter of the Bacchiad Amphion, and mother of Cypselus, by Eetion.1 According to the Etymologicum Magnum,2 her name was derived from the fact of her feet being turned outward, and thus resembling the Greek letter lambda, i.e. Λ.

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References

Notes

  1. Herodotus. Histories v, 92.
  2. p. 199.

Source

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

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