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Lampetia

Λαμπετίη

(Λαμπετίη), a daughter of Helios by the nymph Neara. After her birth she and her sister Phaetusa were carried to Sicily, in order there to watch over the herds of their father. Some call Lampetia a sister of Phaeion. (Hom. Od. 12.132, &c., 374, &c.; Propert. 3.12, 29; Hyg. Fab. 154; Ov. Met. 2.349.)

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.