Leitus
Λήιτος
(Λήιτος), a son of Alector or Alectryon, by Cleobule, and father of Peneleus. (Apollod. 3.10.8; Diod. 4.67.) He is mentioned among the Argonauts (Apollod. 1.9.16), and commanded the Boeotians in the war against Troy (Hom. Il. 2.494, 17.602; Paus. 9.4. 3), from whence he took with him the remains of Arcesilaus. (Paus. 9.39.3.) His tomb was shown in later times at Plataeae. (Paus. 9.4.3; comp. Hyg. Fab. 97.)
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.