Aëtion

Family: Corinthian · Role: husband of Labda · First appears: Book 1 · §9–18

Life events

• Labda married Aëtion after none of the Bacchiadai wished to marry her.(Book 5 · §87–92 · 📍 Petra)
  • With: Labda
  • “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: Labda
  • “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 1 · §9–18

• child: Kypselos “but is that of Kypselos the son of Aëtion).”

Book 5 · §87–92

• married with Labda “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.”
• parent: Echecrates (Echecrates is Aëtion's father.) “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.”
• with Caineus (Aëtion is described as being of the race of Caineus.) “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 “From the offspring of Aëtion however it was destined that evils should spring up for Corinth: for Labda was listening to all this as she stood close by the door, and 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, feeling sure that if they should return and come to a search, they were likely to examine everything: and this in fact happened. So when they had come, and searching had failed to find it, they thought it best to return and say to those who had sent them that they had done all that which they had been charged by them to do. (e) They then having departed said this; and after this the son of Aëtion grew, and because he had escaped this danger, the name of Kypselos was given him as a surname derived from the corn-chest.”
• married with Labda “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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