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Lamia

Λαμία

(Λαμία).

1. A daughter of Poseidon, became by Zeus the mother of the Sibyl Herophile. (Paus. 10.12.1; Plut. de Pyth. Orac. 9.)

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.