(), the giver of food or plenty, a surname of
Ares, under which he had a temple on mount Cnesius, near Tegea in Arcadia. Aereope, the
daughter of Cepheus, became by Ares the mother of a son (Aerropus), but she died at the moment
she gave birth to the child, and Ares, wishing to save it, caused the child to derive food
from the breast of its dead mother. This wonder gave rise to the surname