Aegleis

Aegleis

Aegleis (Greek: polytonic|Αἰγληίς) was a daughter of Hyacinthus who had emigrated from Lacedaemon to Athens. During the siege of Athens by Minos, in the reign of Aegeus, she was with her sisters Antheis, Lytaea, and Orthaea, were sacrificed on the tomb of Geraestus the Cyclops, for the purpose of avert­ing a pestilence then raging at Athens. [Apollodorus, iii. 15. § 8.] [Citation
last = Schmitz
first = Leonhard
author-link =
contribution = Aegleis
editor-last = Smith
editor-first = William
title = Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology
volume = 1
pages = 27
publisher =
place = Boston
year = 1867
contribution-url = http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0036.html]

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