(), that is, the changers of or into wine, was
the name of the three or four daughters of king Anius in Delos, because they had received from
Dionysus the power of changing water into wine, and any thing else they chose into corn and
olives (Tzetz. ad Lyc. 750). When Agamemnon heard this, he wanted to
carry them off by force from their father, that they might provide for the army of the Greeks
at Troy; but they implored Dionysus for assistance, and were accordingly metamorphosed into
doves. (