2. Also called Maerops, a king of the Ethiopians, by whose wife, Clymene, Helios became the father of Phaeton. (Strab. i. p.33; Ov. Met. 1.763, Trist. 3.4. 30; comp. Welcker, Die Aeschyl. Tril. p. 572, &c.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology
Smith, William
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. William Smith, LLD, ed. 1890