Labda
Family: Corinthian · Role: daughter of Amphion; wife of Aëtion · First appears: Book 5 · §87–92
Life events
- Labda married Aëtion after none of the Bacchiadai wished to marry her.(Book 5 · §87–92 · 📍 Petra)
- With: Aëtion
- “This daughter, since none of the Bacchiadai wished to marry her, was taken to wife by Aëtion the son of Echecrates, who was of the deme of Petra”
- Labda hid her infant son in a corn-chest to save him from the assassins.(Book 5 · §93–94 · 📍 Petra)
- With: Aëtion
- “fearing lest they should change their mind and take the child a second time and kill it, she carried it and concealed it in the place which seemed to her the least likely to be discovered, that is to say a corn-chest”
Book 5 · §87–92
- parent: Amphion (Amphion is Labda's father.) “one of these men, named Amphion, had a daughter born to him, who was lame, and her name was Labda.”
- married with Aëtion “This daughter, since none of the Bacchiadai wished to marry her, was taken to wife by Aëtion the son of Echecrates, who was of the deme of Petra, but by original descent a Lapith and of the race of Caineus.”
Book 5 · §93–94
- child: Kypselos “Then, so soon as his wife bore a child, they sent ten of their own number to the deme in which Aëtion had his dwelling, to slay the child; and when these had come to Petra and had passed into the court of Aëtion's house, they asked for the child; and Labda, not knowing anything of the purpose for which they had come, and supposing them to be asking for the child on account of friendly feeling towards its father, brought it and placed it in the hands of one of them.”
- married with Aëtion “Then, so soon as his wife bore a child, they sent ten of their own number to the deme in which Aëtion had his dwelling, to slay the child; and when these had come to Petra and had passed into the court of Aëtion's house, they asked for the child; and Labda, not knowing anything of the purpose for which they had come, and supposing them to be asking for the child on account of friendly feeling towards its father, brought it and placed it in the hands of one of them.”
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